Brutus is one of the fastes, most flexible remote password crackers you can get your hands on-it's also free. it is available for Wimdows 9x, NT and 2000, there is no UNIX version available althought it is a posibility at some point in the future.Brutus was first made pubicly available in October 1998 and since that time there have been at least 70,000 downloads and over 175,000 visitors to this page. Development continues so new release wiil be available in the near future. Brutus was written oroginally to help me check routers etc. for default and commoins password

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Brutus versiopn AETS2 is the current release and includes the following authentication types:

HTTP (Basic Authentication)

HTTP (HTML Form/CGI)

POP3

FTP

SMB

Telnet

Other types such as IMAP, NNTP, NetBus etc are freely downloadable from this site and simply imported int your copy of Brutus. You can create your own types or use other peoples

The current release includes the following fuctionally:

Multi-stage authentication engine

60 simultaneous target connections

No username, single username and multiple username modes

Password list, combo (user/password) list and configurable brute force modes

Highly customisable authentication sequences

Load and resume position

Import and Export custom authentication types as BAD files seamlessly

SOCKS proxy support for all all authentication types

User and password list generation and manipulation functionality

HTML Form interpretation for HTML Form/CGI authetication types

Error handing and recovery capability inc. resume after crash/failure