Password Cracking : Credential Management : Credential Mutation Switches : Credential Mutation Options

Credential Mutation Options
The following table describes the credential mutation switches:
Determines the portion of the credential list subjected to mutations – in this case, all known credentials.
Determines the portion of the credential list subjected to mutations – in this case, all credentials manually added by the user.
Determines the portion of the credential list subjected to mutations – in this case, all imported credentials.
Mutation: append numbers to candidate passwords
Strips off all trailing digits off a password and replaces it with a single digit and skips all passwords that do not contain a letter.
Mutation: prepend numbers to candidate passwords
Strips off all digits at the beginning of a password and replaces it with a single digit and skips all passwords that do not contain a letter.
Mutation: substitute numbers within candidate passwords
Strips off up to two digits within a password and replaces it with up to two digits. Passwords with more than three digits are ignored.
Mutation: transpose letters for “i33t-sp34k” alternatives in candidate passwords
Rotates through a number of alpha to numeric substitutions before substituting all of them.
Mutation: append special characters to candidate passwords
Appends a punctuation mark to the beginning of a password or replaces an existing punctuation mark.
Mutation: prepend special characters to candidate passwords
Prepends a punctuation mark to the end of a password or replaces an existing punctuation mark.