Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Cracking 16 Byte MySQL Hashes

In this post, I am going to talk about a tool I came across while trying to crack a pre-MySQL 4.1 password hash. As my goto hash cracker did not support this type of depreciated hash, I had to look for other methods of doing this and I came across the MySQL323 password cracker/collider located here

I found this tool to be just what I was looking for so I downloaded it and ran it. It is very easy to use and the flags for the command are very straight forward.

"mysql323 32.exe" [number of threads] [hash] [keyspace-file]

Once the program finished it gave me these statistics

Total time: 455.626 seconds (7.5 mins)
Average speed: 10.96 Tp/s

Very fast! And yes, the tp/s does stand for trillion passwords per second. The machine I ran this on has an i7 processor with 8 gigs of memory.

This will definitely be my new goto tool for these specific types of MySQL hashes.

2 comments:

  1. I just recently finished a beta of a bruteforcer for mysql323 with OpenCL support. Might be something you'd like to try out if you ever need to crack such an old hash again.

    http://0xdec0.de/projects/mysqlfaster/

    (PS. Really fast speeds ;) )

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