Re: [PEN-TEST] Distributed Brute Force Crackers (WAS: EUSR_EXSTOREEVENT)

[Ryan Russell <ryan () SECURITYFOCUS COM>]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Yonatan Bokovza wrote:

> Almost in that matter,
> does anyone knows of a good distributed brute force
> cracker that can speed DES or NTLM cracking by
> using several computers?

You can do that manually with any of the existing crackers.  Just give
each one a slightly different alphabet to crack from.  Oversimplified
example:

Cracker 1: A-Y
Cracker 2: A-X,Z
Cracker 3: A-W,Y-Z
..
Cracker 26: B-Z

                                        Ryan