rockyou2024

rockyou2024 is a fast, C++23 command-line helper that hunts through the rockyou2024 wordlist — even while it is still zipped — so you can check candidate passwords without unpacking gigantic archives.

Why it’s handy

• Works directly on the official ZIP archive using minizip.
• Respects Google’s C++ style (no exceptions, explicit status codes).
• Offers an interactive prompt or a plain CLI with optional case-insensitive search.

Quick start

Prebuilt archives ship with each GitHub release. Download the one that matches your platform and unzip it somewhere convenient.

Linux / macOS

download_url=https://github.com/vschwaberow/rockyou2024/releases/download/v0.2.0/search-linux-v0.2.0.zip
curl -LO "$download_url"
unzip search-linux-v0.2.0.zip -d rockyou2024-linux

Replace the URL with the macOS package when needed (https://github.com/vschwaberow/rockyou2024/releases/download/v0.2.0/search-macos-v0.2.0.zip).

Windows

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/vschwaberow/rockyou2024/releases/download/v0.2.0/search-windows-v0.2.0.zip -OutFile search-windows-v0.2.0.zip
Expand-Archive -Path search-windows-v0.2.0.zip -DestinationPath rockyou2024-windows

Usage

From the extracted folder:

./search <zip_file> <keyword> [-i]
./search --interactive

PowerShell is similar:

.
search.exe <zip_file> <keyword> [-i]
.
search.exe --interactive

The tool exits with 0 on success. On errors you’ll get a short status message explaining what went wrong.

Build it yourself

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build
ctest --test-dir build

Release notes

See CHANGELOG.md for what changed in each version.

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Version 0.2.0 · MIT licensed · Built by Volker Schwaberow [email protected]

Acknowledgements

Original C++ port by Mike Madden (https://github.com/mikemadden42/rockyou2024)