Bruty

Basic bruteforce dictionary generator written in C++, with a focus on maximum efficiency and generation speed.

Build

Fastest way to build the project:

1. Download the source code zip
2. Extract the source code
3. Open the extracted folder in a terminal and run the following commands
4. mkdir Release
5. cd Release
6. cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
7. make
8. Run the compiled binary with ./Bruty

Usage

Usage: bruty charset length [-s]

• charset: the code of the charset that will be used to compose the passwords
  • 0: lowercase letters
  • 1: lowercase letters and digits
  • 2: lowercase and uppercase letters
  • 3: lowercase and uppercase letters and digits
  • 4: lowercase and uppercase letters, digits and symbols
• length: the length of the password
• -s: silent mode, do not print progress information

Performance

Tests performed on a Macbook Air M1

• bruty 0 6 > out.txt: 10.3 seconds
• crunch 6 6 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > out.txt: 30.0 seconds

So bruty appears to be around 3x faster than crunch.