Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:15:40 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Laurent LEVIER <llevier@argosnet.com> Cc: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Subject: Re: Ports with duplicate LATEST_LINKS Message-ID: <200402172015.i1HKFeEd022641@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Laurent LEVIER <llevier@argosnet.com> <6.0.1.1.2.20040217204419.01e2a170@213.30.158.180>
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In message <6.0.1.1.2.20040217204419.01e2a170@213.30.158.180>, Laurent
LEVIER w
rites:
> Hi Gentlemen,
>
> It is really a brute force attack tool to obtain passwords.
> A password cracker (as Crack, John the Ripper, ...) but oriented to work
> over the network.
>
> Hydra does password cracking against SMB (Windows), telnet, POP/IMAP, FTP, ..
> .
> It does dictionnary attacks as simple password generation algorithms.
>
> I use that in my company to evaluate passwords quality when I am not
> granted to crack the passwords directly from the box.
> If I succeed, bad point for the box owner ;-)
Should I commit the following patch to correct the wording?
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/security/hydra/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 Makefile
--- Makefile 15 Feb 2004 00:26:41 -0000 1.6
+++ Makefile 17 Feb 2004 20:13:27 -0000
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= groups/thc
MAINTAINER= llevier@argosnet.com
-COMMENT= Bruce Force Attack Utility working on multiple network services
+COMMENT= Brute force attack utility working on multiple network services
NO_LATEST_LINK= yes
PLIST_FILES= bin/hydra
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