Rather straight forward. It works but has much more improvements yet to come. This will use your CPU to the best of its ability so you may want to use this on a secondary system.
To use the install script you need to have the following commands available on your
system curl wget unzip sudo cc
and possibly other build essentials for C.
For Ubuntu and Docker images of Ubuntu you can install these prerequisites with:
apt-get update && apt-get install curl wget unzip sudo build-essential
NOTE: if you are not root you may need to precede apt-get
with sudo
The install.sh
script will check for Rust and aescrypt and proceed to install them
if they are missing (it will ask you if you want to install Rust).
First download the installation script locally.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielpclark/abrute/master/install.sh > install.sh
Then verify that the contents of the installation script is safe to use (a no brainer). Then run
bash install.sh
This install script will use sudo to copy the binary directly to /usr/bin
and make the
command abrute
available to you everywhere.
First you need to have aescrypt installed.
wget https://www.aescrypt.com/download/v3/linux/aescrypt-3.13.tgz
tar -xzf aescrypt-3.13.tgz
cd aescrypt-3.13/src
make && sudo make install
cd ../.. && rm -rf aescrypt-3.13
Next you need to have Rust installed.
curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
Then you can get and compile abrute.
git clone https://github.com/danielpclark/abrute.git
cd abrute
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/abrute /usr/bin/
USAGE: abrute <RANGE> <CHARACTERS> [OPTIONS] -- <TARGET>
<RANGE> Single digit or a range 4:6 for password length.
<CHARACTERS> Characters to use in password attempt. Don't use quotes
unless they may be in the password. Backslash may escape
characters such as space.
-a, --adjacent Set a limit for allowed adjacent characters. Zero will
not allow any characters of the same kind to neighbor
in the attempts.
-s, --start Starting character sequence to begin with.
<TARGET> Target file to decrypt. The target must be preceeded
by a double dash: -- target.aes
-h, --help Prints help information.
-v, --version Prints version information.
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.