My Top Hash-Cracking Wordlists and Rainbow Tables (Updated July 29 2025)#
Introduction#
Password cracking often relies on wordlists and rainbow tables. This post contains some of my favorite wordlists and rainbow table sources.
Top Wordlists#
| Wordlist |
Approx. size / entries (where available) |
Notable features / uses |
Sources |
| RockYou & RockYou2024 |
RockYou.txt: 32 M; RockYou2024: ~9.95 B unique |
Real-world passwords from breaches; standard for Hashcat/John the Ripper. |
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| SecLists |
Collection (~350 GB raw) |
Multi-purpose: passwords, user names, URLs, payloads. |
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| CrackStation |
1.49 B words (15 GB); 64 M human-only (684 MB) |
Aggregates every leak & Wikipedia; cracks ~30 % of online submissions. |
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| Probable Wordlists |
~2 B sorted by popularity |
Ranked by occurrence frequency across leaks; helps avoid common passwords. |
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| Weakpass |
Sizes range 2 KB–104.8 GB |
Organized by algorithm/type: MD5, NTLM, sha512crypt, WPA2. |
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Top Rainbow Tables#
| Table Source |
Hash Type(s) |
Charset & Length |
Total Size |
Success Rate / Notes |
Sources |
| Ophcrack XP tables |
LM (8 chars) |
Alphanumeric, special (select sets) |
XP free: 17 GB; Vista free: 11.9 GB |
XP crack ~99.9 %; Vista ~99 % |
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| RainbowCrack |
LM, NTLM, MD5, SHA1 |
Various charsets (1–8 chars) |
Depends on tables; uses RTI format |
Fast time-memory trade-off for unsalted hashes |
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| FreeRainbowTables |
NTLM, MD5, SHA-1, MySQLSHA1, LM |
Mixalpha-numeric-space, symbol sets, lengths up to 14 |
NTLM: 818 GB; MD5: 1.18 TB; SHA-1: 97 GB; LM: 4.3 TB |
Covers unsalted hashes; community-seeding via BitTorrent |
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| PassMark OSForensics disk |
MD5, LM, NTLM, SHA1 |
Loweralphanumeric 1–7 chars; extended sets 1–12 chars |
~3.1 TB total (collection) |
HalfLM/NTLM require external tools; integrates with OSForensics |
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| Crack.sh |
DES keyspace (2^56) |
Full DES key, FPGA-accelerated |
6 TB NVMe storage; 12×512 GB table |
~25 s average crack time; 99.5 % success |
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