Distributed Password Cracker - Dictionary Attack/Brute Force

Ethical Distributed Password Cracker

The password cracker aims to crack passwords created using hashing algorithms:

1. Yescrypt
2. MD5crypt
3. SHA1crypt
4. SHA256crypt
5. SHA512crypt
6. Bcrypt
7. DEScrypt

High Level Client-Server Architecture

User Guide

Pre requisite:

• Need to have python setup on the machine.
• A shadow file to test with.
• Some file(s) containing top passwords (dictionary of passwords).

1. Run the password cracker Server: python3 server.py -f /etc/shadow -t <#> <username>:
        

2. Run the password cracker Client: python3 main.py -s <ip-address-server> -p <port>
         - The list of the top password text file is provided in the source directory.
         - Can run it on a custom port which is different from the default one:
            
   

3. There has been a copy of shadow file provided in source directory as well for reference. You can add some user-password lines here in this file manually and pass this to the -f flag when initiating the program instead of the /etc/shadow.

Example Password Cracked