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Research...distperm
This is one of my pet projects still in the works. It should be done shortly as it's not all that complicated. However, I need some of the other libraries to complete it that are still under heavy development.
This is one of my sub projects to be used as a framework for other distributed computing projects in the future. It can easily be converted to something like a batch system or can be used for some other distributed computing needs.
There are two parts to this program: a server and a client. The server runs on any number of Linux and Windows machines. The client is used to submit jobs to each of the servers. The client devides up the task at hand in a very rudamentary way and distributes it to each of the servers keeping them all busy until the password is cracked. Right now the program only knows how to crack MD5 and SHA1 hashes. The crypto++ library I use has just about any hash you want and it is very simple to add in any other hash function.
As always, I am providing this strictly for know-how and research purposes. This is not meant to be used as an actual brute force password cracking program. In fact, the framework provided is not optimized for password cracking and you'll find there are far faster and better solutions out there. See Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for more information.
Research...distpermdistperm
Sunday, July 11, 2004 by digitalpeer, updated Friday, August 6, 2004
This is one of my sub projects to be used as a framework for other distributed computing projects in the future. It can easily be converted to something like a batch system or can be used for some other distributed computing needs.
There are two parts to this program: a server and a client. The server runs on any number of Linux and Windows machines. The client is used to submit jobs to each of the servers. The client devides up the task at hand in a very rudamentary way and distributes it to each of the servers keeping them all busy until the password is cracked. Right now the program only knows how to crack MD5 and SHA1 hashes. The crypto++ library I use has just about any hash you want and it is very simple to add in any other hash function.
As always, I am providing this strictly for know-how and research purposes. This is not meant to be used as an actual brute force password cracking program. In fact, the framework provided is not optimized for password cracking and you'll find there are far faster and better solutions out there. See Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for more information.
