Re: Bruteforce HTTP Basic authentification

[Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe () gmail com>]

On 8/17/05, nik <nik () adminzone ru> wrote:
> Hello list!
> I'm doing little pen-test of a web-application for a small
> company.
> This application uses HTTP Basic autintification. So the
> question is:
> does any one know some tools (such as brutus) for
> brutforce usernames
> and passwors for this type of authentification. These
> tools must run
> under Linux or FreeBSD.

The LWP perl module will do quite nicely. Combine that with an
optimized alphabet or 4, and you can have a very effective brute
forcer in a couple of screenfuls of code. Optimizing your alphabet can
be very effective, taking the time to crack a password down from hours
to minutes or even seconds if you have a good idea about the letter
distribution. ;)

CK

-- 
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