The night ended not with a cracked hash, but with a lesson: when the "probable" fails, the answer usually lies in the details of the physical environment. wordlists - Penetration Testing Lab wordlistprobabletxt did not contain password high quality
Verify the path and file encoding of wordlistprobable.txt.
Log a sample of candidates before and after quality filtering to inspect why items are excluded.
Temporarily relax the quality threshold to confirm filter behavior.
Add unit tests with known-high-quality passwords to confirm detection.
Ensure the tool isn’t reading an empty or truncated file (add size check and clear error messages).
: The specific Probable-Wordlists repository contains version 2 lists optimized for probability, which are often the source for the "wordlistprobable.txt" name. Verify the path and file encoding of wordlistprobable