psinghal20 / distributed-cracker

A distributed hash cracker

Distributed Hash Cracker

Distributed password cracker written in Golang, inspired by one of the CMU's Distributed systems course assignment. It was mainly a project to gain experience with golang.

The whole app is distributed in 3 modules:

• Request Client: It makes hashing requests to central server.
• Central Server: Central server handles all the main tasks, managing workers and distributing jobs.
• Worker Client: Worker nodes perform the main computation and execute jobs received from central server.

NOTE: The project is still not complete and has some rough edges. I will try to smoothen them out as soon as possible!

How to run

Generate Binaries for all three modules by running either(in respective directory):

go build

or

go install

Running central server

./server [TCP(or Request Server) PORT] [UDP(or Worker Server) PORT]

Running request client

./requestClient [Server IP Address] [Request Server PORT] [HASH] [Length of Password]

Running worker node

./workerClient [Server IP Address] [Worker Server PORT]

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! I will try to look at them as soon as I can. Ping me once I forget to reply. Thanks! 😄

PS: If someone has experience with distributed computing or testing apps for concurrency issues and have a minute to spare, please shoot me an email! I would love some advice!

License

This project is licensed under MIT license. View License

References

• CMU's Distributed Computing 15-440, Assignment Handout
• gocrack