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https://github.com/cculianu/brute38
Resumable BIP38 Brute Force Password Cracker, written in Go
https://github.com/cculianu/brute38
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Resumable BIP38 Brute Force Password Cracker, written in Go
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/cculianu/brute38
- Owner: cculianu
- License: mit
- Created: 2014-03-06T01:26:26.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-03-05T20:18:08.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-13T16:32:04.791Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 49.8 KB
- Stars: 41
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 18
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# brute38
## Resumable BIP38 Brute Force Password Cracker (written in Go)
#### (C) 2018 Calin Culianu BCH/BTC: 1Ca1inQuedcKdyELCTmN8AtKTTehebY4mC
Based on Charlie Hothersall-Thomas' implementation, but added features, bugs fixed,
and expanded with more command-line options and better support for variable-length passwords.
See Charlie Hothersall-Thomas' original implementation at: https://github.com/chigley/bip38
## Distinguishing Features:
- Support for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash plus over 170+ other different address styles. Run it with the --coin=list option to see the full list of supported coins/addresses.
- Design philosophy is for a *resumable* brute force cracker. This way you can start and stop it and let cracking sessions run for weeks at a time, and persist across reboots. Given the same input parameters (password length, thread count, pattern, key, etc), you can hit CTRL-C at any time, get a magic number, and then re-run the app with the --resume=N parameter, and it will continue brute forcing from where it left off.
## Requires:
- Go Language
## Installation/Compilation:
> go get github.com/cculianu/brute38
> go build github.com/cculianu/brute38
> go install github.com/cculianu/brute38
## Running:
(Unix/Linux/OSX)
> $GOPATH/bin/brute38 -h
(Windows)
> %GOPATH%/bin/brute38.exe -h
All of the above assumes you have Go set up properly.
## Feature Wishlist:
- I really want to add GPU-based cracking. I need to read up on getting a scrypt password hasher to work in OpenCL. Any volunteers to help with this would be really greatly appreciated!
## Caveats
Resumability has some tradeoffs:
1. It always searches the keyspace linearly, so no lotto-style luck is ever involved.
2. Regular expression pattern specs don't naturally fit in with the design so I have been holding off on implementing them. The preferred workflow if you want regular expressions is to generate a flat file with a whole bunch of passphrases to try, then pass that to the program with the -i parameter.
3. To correctly resume a previously-interrupted search, you must use the same specification for the search. This includes: number of threads (-t), BIP38 key, pattern (or pattern length or -i input file), and --charset all need to be the same! The program will not warn you if you are resuming a search incorrectly.
## Questions? Comments?
For feature requests, troubleshooting tips, love letters, hatemail, etc, don't be shy and feel free to contact me!