This assignment taught me a lot about password cracking and password strength through various users and varying password strength on each user, and then using John the RIpper with the rockyou.txt to crack them. The biggest challenge I can say for this is having to troubleshoot my VM because in order to use John The Ripper, you needed an encryption method that was compatiable with it, and my VM was not compatiable with YESCRYPT, so I had to spend an hour figuring out how to change it. Overall, this lab helped me understand about passwords and how linux stores them as hashes, and how they can be cracked.