DES_GEN - DES Cracker (Dictionary Based Brute Force)

DES_GEN was written as a POC for a specific application that shall remain anonymous several months ago.

The belief at the company was that cracking DES requires custom hardware (See EFF's US$250,000 DES cracking machine) so the vendor refused to update to newer methods of password storage.

Here's a single threaded x86 based slap in the face for that company written in perl none the less - yes a dictionary file and some fairly weak mutations cracked your root password in 46 minutes.

I'm not sure if anyone will get any use out of this, but here it is.

--If there is enough interest in updates or future releases Threading and CUDA support may be added. Cheers.

Author(s): 
EverestX
Version: 
B4_POC
Date: 
8/2011
Filename: 
Size: 
2.60KB
Requirements: 

Perl, Word list, DES

Status: 
Inactive