Link — Rockyoutxt
These are available via SecLists and other curated repos. While rockyou.txt remains a gold standard, consider these for different contexts:
https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/blob/master/Passwords/Leaked-Databases/rockyou.txt.tar.gz rockyoutxt link
sudo gunzip /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz SecLists is the premier collection of wordlists for security testing. RockYou.txt is part of their “Passwords” directory. These are available via SecLists and other curated repos
https://downloads.skullsecurity.org/passwords/rockyou.txt.bz2 4. Offensive Security’s Official Wordlists OffSec maintains a wordlist archive used in their training labs, accessible to students. 5. How to Use RockYou.txt Effectively Basic password cracking with Hashcat: hashcat -m 0 -a 0 hash.txt rockyou.txt (where -m 0 = MD5, -a 0 = straight dictionary) With John the Ripper: john --wordlist=rockyou.txt hashfile.txt Customizing rockyou.txt: Reduce size by filtering: https://downloads
grep -E '^.8,16$' rockyou.txt > rockyou_8-16.txt (keeps only passwords 8–16 chars long)
git clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists.git SkullSecurity has hosted legacy wordlists for years, including RockYou with original sorting.
ls /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz To decompress: