[ASSIGNMENT] Perform brute force attack.

Question

program to find the password by making all possible permutations of characters which can be use in password . It's just like hacking.
Like the password is: hello123#
your program must check all possible combinations which can be make by using different characters. And finally match each word/sentence by given password.

Answer 1

Lol, "these" threads.

Don't forget to factor in many systems have a 1 (or more) second wait between _all_ login attempts.

OP this not meant critically, but what's the point of this? It's going to take loads of SL server resources to run a program that essentially counts 1,2,3... It's essentially just a recursive function or some nested loops.

Answer 2

1) firstly...the word "combination" must get replaced by "permutation" in your question

2) secondly, brute force permutation checking has nothing to do with Hacking in any possible way...

3) thirdly, please elaborate the task...

Answer 3

I'm not sure, but doesn't that normally work with hashcodes? Like, what if there's a limit of attempts?

Answer 4

this is a weird kinda bruteforce but diff algo...
one liner and not readable😂😂😂

https://code.sololearn.com/cenSVpKGo0JQ/?ref=app

Answer 5

TO PERFORM BRUTE FORCE ATTACK FIRST YOU NEED A HANDSHAKE FILE THEN CREATE WORDLIST THIS CAN BE DONE USING KALI LIUNX CREATE WORDLIST USING CRUNCH SOFWARE IN KALI
THIS METHOD IS TESTED BY ME IT WORK 90% OF THE TIME

BEST OF LUCK 👍

Answer 6

Plain bruteforcing by testing every possible permutation is absolutely inefficient. It would take way to long to get a positive result if the target string is long enough. And like @sayan mentioned: this has nothing to do with hacking.

But to be honest: this is actually a good challenge in my opinion. It won't harm anyone since it's absolutely useless and contains some basic concepts you should know. So why not.
Better than all these "print this pattern" and "print some primes" challenges [no offense. They are quite useful for beginners to get used to algorithms]

Answer 7

The resources are limited for each execution. The server doesn't mind if it makes calculations for a Tower of Hanoi code, calculated prime numbers between a range or permutates a string.
Even if this challenge may has a "how 2 hax" flair, after all it's good exercise for string manipulations. And won't do any harm because it's absolute nonsense in many ways to do a plain bruteforce attack. Especially if it's done over the internet to get login data (because of the reason you mentioned).