paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (10/22/90)
Archive-name: fastdes/20-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) Original-subject: Re: Unix Password crackers Archive-site: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.50] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) bmanta@blake.u.washington.edu (The Black Manta) writes: >If anyone has a Unix password cracking program, could you please send it >to me? I am looking at doing some consulting and am in need of one or a few. >Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. There's a pretty decent password cracker in the COPS package (look in the FastDES directory). It's available for anon-FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in pub/cops.tar.Z . On a IBM RS6000/540, it runs at 1.64ms per read/encrypt/compare iteration. It takes 40 seconds per entry to cycle through /usr/dict/words (~24K entries) and just over 7 minutes per entry to cycle through a wordlist from the OED2 (252K entries). Btw, the on-line OED2 (750 Mbytes) plus the per-word index (460 Mbytes) is leased from Oxford University Press. The educational license is $10K/5 years. Contact newoed@watsol.waterloo.edu for more information. /pbp -- Paul Pomes UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!paul Internet, BITNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2910