Password Cracking Time Predictor

Functional but upside down work environment

Inspiration

To be able to create a fun and interesting program which solves a real world problem and reveals a fallacy in the computer world - passwords. This is a common issue we face as we hear on the news more and more frequently about another major attack. Every IT Department uses SSH or Remote Desktop to provide support to users. However this tool is surprisingly easy to hack. Our program today determines the amount of time it takes to hack into these programs. After all time is of the essence in these attacking situations and we show with the program just how little time you have.

What it does

Brute forces a password made of Cyhacks, 2020, 2020HACK, HACKATHON, along with anagrams of Central and 2020.

How we built it

We used Java for the frontend and backend. The com.jcraft.JSch.* package was used to allow connections to hosts. We didn't program a GUI because the average user should not be able to use this program easily. However future plans could include creating a very locked down GUI that allows the user to quantitatively see the time the passwords took to hack rather than adjusting passwords to lengthen the amount of time it takes to hack into the accounts.

Challenges we ran into

We worked heavily on a locked down front end however eventually decided against this for usage purposes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The back end working properly as well as it cracking the passwords

What we learned

We learned how to use Javafx to create the timer for this program, Ubuntu and SSH for testing the program. Debugging the program.

What's next for Password Cracking Time Predictor

Front end GUI. Predictive Machine learning in order to accept all range of passwords. Expanding to more functionality, Windows interface.

Built With

Submitted to

CY Hacks '20
- Winner Best Code

Created by

I was responsible for setting up the backend brute forcing part of our project. I also was responsible for documentation and security in our program and the test environment.

EanDudley30 Dudley
I worked on front end collaborating with other team members to write compile and merge classes to display a GUI.

Kegan Wiggington
I worked on the Timer for the front end. I did this by using the import java.timer and manipulating the integers and made variable for milliseconds, seconds, minutes, I did not make one for hour because we don't anticipate the passwords taking more than 59:59. It used to have a split timer but we don't need to split the timer anymore for this project so we removed it. I also helped debugging the program when we combined both the display menu and the timer.

Arnav Bal
I helped work on the front end, creating a usable gui

Colin Loughlin
I helped set up a testing environment to try and better present our program but the program is too extreme and should not be setup properly on a public network.

Emerson Spahr

Updates

EanDudley30 Dudley started this project — Jan 25, 2020 05:27 PM EST

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