Friday, August 11, 2006

.:A Word About Brute Forcing:. *Just a cheesy intro*


You have probably heard about brute forcing before, wether you're a hacker, cracker, web master or just read the news papers. Heck! I'm positive you have an idea about what the hell I'm talkin about. According to Wikipedia brute forcing is a trivial but very general problem-solving technique, that consists of systematically enumerating all possible candidates for the solution and checking whether each candidate satisfies the problem's statement. In the last past years, brute forcing has been given a bad reputation. It was more of a loser's way to find out a password, but it never worked and he was always tracked down using logs.
Well, in most occasions that's true =p . But this isn't always true.

In general, for those that aren't familiar with brute forcing, is to try all possibilities of a string with X number of characters untill you track down the correct string you need. For example, let's say I have a password made of 5 integers *0-9*. So basically i'll need to try out the strings "00000" to "99999". There is no chance I can't track down the string/password I wanted using this way. Later in my blog entries, I'll show you how to brute force in an 3133t3 manner so that you can never get tracked down. I know this blog entry isn't anything big but I just needed to clear things out before I start the Brute Forcing serial.

PS: Not all the upcoming posts will necc. be parts of the Brute Forcing serial ;) .

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