Password Cracker

A password cracker written in Go.

Crack a Password

Incremental Mode

• Similar to John the Ripper's incremental mode
• This is the default mode
• The maxlen default is 4

make run ARGS="-mode incremental -password <password_hash> -maxlen <brute_force_len>"

// Or...

make run ARGS="-password <password_hash>"

Dictionary Mode

• using a wordlist

make run ARGS="-mode dictionary -password <password_hash> -wordlist <the_wordlist.txt>"

Rainbow Table Mode

• using a Rainbow Table

make run ARGS="-mode rainbow -password <password_hash> -rainbow <rainbow_table.dat>"

Generate Rainbow Table

• using a wordlist

make run ARGS="-mode genRainbow -wordlist <the_wordlist.txt> -out <rainbow_table.dat>"

Run Tests

make test