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Try to find the password of a file that was encrypted with the 'openssl' command.
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password not found while it is present in the dictionary #4

Closed mwnoo closed 7 years ago

mwnoo commented 7 years ago

Hi,

I can't get your code to work.

Here is an example. I first created an encrypted file with password "test"

openssl enc -aes256 -salt -in secret_test.txt -out encrypted.txt -k test

Then I tried bruteforce-salted-openssl using a wordlist, but the password "test" was not found while it is present in wordlist.txt. In the output you can see that the last password tried was "test"

bruteforce-salted-openssl -t 2 -f wordlist.txt -c aes256 encrypted.txt

Tried passwords: 6
Tried passwords per second: inf
Last tried password: test
Password not found

But when I decrypt the file using openssl with the password "test" the original message is shown

openssl enc -d -aes256 -salt -in encrypted.txt -k test

Did I miss an option when calling bruteforce-salted-openssl?

Thanks, Mark

glv2 commented 7 years ago

Maybe your secret_test.txt file doesn't contain enough printable ASCII characters, as by default the program considers decrypted data as correct when there is at least 90% of them (see the Limitations section of the README file).