realist

~crunch + distributed wordlist generation

🚧 Work in progress...

Usage

The most password-based authentication systems now provide some constraints on password scheme (minimum password lenght, special character use,...). realist is a simple tool to generate all the possible combinations taking in account those constraints (thus preventing the generation of invalid scheme passwords).

For example, admitting the following constraints:

• Minimum password length: 7
• Minimum special character: 1
• Minimum uppercase character: 1
• Minimum lowercase character: 1

realist --min-len 7 --min-spe 1 --min-upper 1 --min-lower 1
# stdout the wordlist of all combinations

Cloud computing

As the wordlist generation is a very long and resource intensive process, the idea is to split the computation into multiple instance. Hence, all instances will be in charge of a specific subset of the whole wordlist.

The use case is particularly interesting in case of you are able to monitor multiple servers/pc (so the cloud basically) and you are trying to perform brute-forcing. You are then able to divide your "brute force" tasks in each instances you are monitoring and be much faster.

Below is the Brute forcing compute on each instance:

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    realist ||--o{ bruteforce-tool : "generate wordlist subset"
    bruteforce-tool ||--o{ authentication-endpoint : "brute force"

Notes: Have to find a way to split wordlist generation in equal subset (~split cartesian product)