ZoneTwelve/rockyou-in-size

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RockYou in Size

Size-based shards of the classic rockyou.txt password wordlist, for authorized security testing, CTF challenges, and research. Each shard is a prefix of the frequency-sorted original, cut at a clean line boundary, so smaller shards contain the most common passwords. Run the smallest shard first and escalate only if needed.

Files

File	Approx. size	Passwords
shards/rockyou-1M.txt	1 MiB	~128 K
shards/rockyou-5M.txt	5 MiB	~621 K
shards/rockyou-10M.txt	10 MiB	~1.22 M
shards/rockyou-20M.txt	20 MiB	~2.37 M
shards/rockyou-50M.txt	50 MiB	~5.51 M
shards/rockyou-100M.txt	100 MiB	~10.7 M
rockyou.txt	133 MiB	14.34 M (full source)

Sizes are MiB (1024² bytes), each trimmed down to the last complete line.

Usage

# fast first pass
hashcat -m 0 hashes.txt shards/rockyou-1M.txt
# escalate if nothing cracks
hashcat -m 0 hashes.txt shards/rockyou-10M.txt

Intended use

For authorized penetration testing, security research, and educational contexts only. rockyou.txt is a widely distributed public wordlist derived from a 2009 breach; do not use it to attack systems you are not authorized to test.