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Bonnie39 / tominecon.7z-cracker

an attempt at cracking the code to tominecon.7z
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Not currently viable and some fixes. #7

Open theogbob opened 2 months ago

theogbob commented 2 months ago

This script currently isnt viable and thats for a few reasons. 1) Lack of optimizations - Some simple ones are disabling verbose printing to the console as this slows down execution and better use of the CPU 2) Better tools exist, Things like hashcat have existed for a long time and have been optimized very well beyond what this can do 3) using a CPU in general is a terrible idea, from my testing its over 1000x slower than GPU computation and even with GPUs it already takes thousands of years to crack this (my 10 nivida A2000's which are simular to 3070's take ~5000 years to crack this)

What can be done?

Well ive wrote up a tutorial here on how to properly setup a cracking system here for this which uses hashcat and i plan to setup a Folding @ Home team so users will be able to connect and we can have a globalized effort rather than small individuals.

Key things to note:

Its very well possible that the password is not infact 12 numbers and the person who claimed they cracked it lied or made up that number, even today cracking a password like that is extremely difficult so to think someone in 2012 did it is well...basiclly impossible.

SondreDj commented 2 months ago

We know the password is 16 digits.

SoulsOfWolves commented 2 months ago

We know the password is 16 digits.

But how do you know that? Anybody could lie about that. Cracking a 16 digit password, even one that's just 0-9, would take thousands of years.