Things To make sure of, b4 u start to Brute Force!

Hiya,

Back today to mind storm about the things that have to link up altogether so you can accomp. a powerful brute force attack =) . Among these things, these things stand-out in ma mind:

• Speed: Brute Forcing usually means trying MILLIONS of strings up upon one string to check if you found what you're looking. These MILLIONS can add up to make you sit on your computer for years :D . So you have to make sure you're using fast protocls(internet), use the best performing language to code your brute forcer.
  
  
• Efficiency: As I've already said, Brute Forcing is alot of work. So, you have to cut short anything that can get cut short. In brute forcing, what you do is try a chain of characters and check if it's correct. Now, to make your code efficient, you have to make sure you're not trying extra characters for example and not waiting for extra responses to be recieed which aren't really nec.
  
  
• Stealth: To Brute Force, you're usually gonna be sending hundreds, heck, millions of messages to web servers. These messages are usually logged by security softwares. These logs can find everything about you as they log in your IP address.Using it, they can find out where you live, what your name is. Now, there are many things you can do about that. You can use a snooped IP address or you can just use a computer in an internet cafe =D .

That's all for now. G2G . Hope you liked this blog entry. Next topic in this series will be "Brute Forcing: The technique".