I got a promotion :) I AM a Senior Web developer now ][ Answer posted

Congrats!
I think I'll wait for a while. Last time I cracked the code after some hints but this is a lot more difficult for me with the given information.

Congratulations, ozo2003!

Congratulations! Do you have any advice for junior web devs who are looking for their first job?

Heh my sister's company is getting most of its web dev done where you are, I hope you're not working for that company, they're jerks :D

Congrats on the promotion. Remember that doesn't give them license to make you do the work of 3 junior web devs and enjoy the perks ;)

bump

No idea how to start this one unlike the last but if you're so kind I would like to hear about it afterwards. I thought of putting producing... something (no spoilers) for john and going from there but producing the whole thing to check (a-z and A-Z for 16 characters) was something like 6 petabytes lol.

Congrats!

Omedetou... SENPAI?!
Since you are a senior now! xD

Congratulations!

Here are some suggestions about hints:
I think a part of letter appearance analyzed from this would help? :)
A clearer hint can be like the position of capital letters.

bumpy

Bump

Woah, thanks to this challenge I've gone from knowing nothing about what JTR was 2 weeks ago to now learning about modes and rules and what not. Thanks for the motivation ozo!
I don't know if somebody already cracked the password, but I would need some more hints to get it. Could you please tell us if any lowercase letter is repeated just after its appearance? I mean if there is any lowercase letter that appears twice without any other between them, in case I didn't explained it well enough.

We definietly need hints about letter locations, becuase even if we know all 16 letters it would take years (if not centuries) to brute force it

updated hints

bump for thinking that the hints are updated enough for me to at least give it a go. I have a python program that I think should reduce the combinations of things enough to have a bit of a chance, but I'll probably need to find a way to optimize it further.

If I were to request one additional hint, the main thing that I can think of that would help my program further would be revealing more details about the repeated character(s) [eg: which letters / how they are distributed among the lower/upper case letters].

EDIT: Even with parallel processing just the first set of characters found is taking longer than I anticipated

updated hints

Bump for solved! The last hint was key.

Bump for solved.

Hmm, despite the geneours hints I think the number of password candidates will be too big to generate and then try agains the archive before time is out. I'll give it a shot, but we'll see.

bump for solved

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Congrats!

Bump, password found :)

Another bump

bump for "welp, my code didn't work, at least there is some time to try another approach"