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Okay, so I forgot the password to an OpenOffice document. It's kind of a life or death situation. Everyone is saying that I need to brute-force attack it, but how do I do that?
I REALLY REALLY need to the password, so any adivce would be great. Thanks!
http://www.linux.com/feature/61635 is the answer for you. i have used it myself and i know it works but you need a decent computer for good cracking speed.
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i am confused with these two algorithms : brute force algorithm and minmax algorithm.
minmax is otherwise known as minimax algorithm...
for me it looks like that minmax is a brute force algorithm, it looks like that minmax is a modified brute force algorithm...
so how do they really differ? or is true that minmax is just modified brute force?
Minimax is a much more efficient way to walk through the decision tree, then brute force as only those nodes are visited that might still contain a better solution, contrary to brute force where *all* nodes are visited, without any pruning.
That is better explained here using diagrams and pseudo code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
I lost my password for my home computer and i dont have any windows installation cd's so i want to use a brute force cracker to get the password. Help!
This one seems to work for most people who commented and it's free:
http://www.password-crackers.com/en/cate gory_177/program_134.html
You really only need a free trial if you're really only needing to find your own password. This page has free trials as well as free software, but the free software is obviously not as good:
http://www.openwall.com/passwords/micros oft-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003
Good luck.
I have an AEM brute force intake on my '02 silverado 1500, what products do I need and how do I clean the filter? Thanks!
You can purchase reuseable filter cleaning kits at any
good auto parts store.
We have an FTP server that is being brute force attacked as I speak. Is there any software that is easy to install for Windows 2003 that will auto-block an IP after several failed attempts for a period of time? Manually blocking the IPs myself will do practically nothing as it changes with every user attempt. Looking at the log files it's being hit practically every second... please help!
Strictly speaking, if the traffic is from truly spoofed addresses, they won't be able to actually *connect* to the FTP server, as that's a TCP connection, and requires a 3-packet exchange - the remote end sends the first packet (SYN), you reply with a SYN-ACK, and then they have to reply to *your* SYN-ACK with an AK, and they have to return a number that was in the packet. So if it's spoofed, your SYN-ACK goes off to the spoofed address, and they an't reply with the right number.
More likely, you're being attacked by a botnet - a network of computers hooked together, and it can *look* like it's a wave of spoofed addresses, because even small botnets these days have tens of thousands of hijacked computers on them (the record is close to 2 million machines hijacked into one botnet).
Having said that, your best bet is probably to block *all* inbound traffic to the FTP server, and then only allow in those sites/machines that actually *NEED* to be able to access it. If you really *do* need "the entire planet" to be able to access the server, that gets harder. But if (as is often the case) you only really need to let (for example) 4 branch offices get access, you can just allow those 4 IP address ranges in.