Publication detail

Towards Fully Automated Infinitely Scalable and Maximally Effective Password Cracking of Encrypted Documents

VESELÝ, V.

Original Title

Towards Fully Automated Infinitely Scalable and Maximally Effective Password Cracking of Encrypted Documents

Type

presentation

Language

English

Original Abstract

The lecture outlines password-cracking use-cases, employed formats, current GPU/FPGA performance limits and existing (non-)commercial cracking tools. Moreover, we will introduce our hypervisor for distributed password cracking that helps investigators to utilize the potential of their infrastructure. We will show how to: a) automatically extract hashes from encrypted documents; b) prepare and evaluate password key space (e.g., generate passwords using Markov chains / rule-based grammars and handling of passwords containing national characters); c) orchestrate various cracking strategies (e.g., a combination of dictionaries). Last but not least, we will speak about our experience when developing our own GPU-based hardware cracking platform competitive with industry standards from well-known vendors.

Keywords

FITcrack, hashcat, distributed password cracking

Authors

VESELÝ, V.

Released

29. 5. 2019

Location

Praha

Pages count

33

URL

https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12147/

BibTex

@misc{BUT162469,
  author="Vladimír {Veselý}",
  title="Towards Fully Automated Infinitely Scalable and Maximally Effective Password Cracking of Encrypted Documents",
  year="2019",
  pages="33",
  address="Praha",
  url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12147/",
  note="presentation"
}