Crack PDF passwords using BeagleBone
The password protected PDF file is passed to the Beaglebone device on a thumb drive. Since the BeagleBone is running embedded Linux you don’t need to mess around with figuring out how to read from the device. A click of the button starts the process. Currently the code just uses a brute force attack which can test more than 6000 four-character passwords per second on the 700 MHz ARM processor. This is quite slow for any password more than four or five characters long, but [Nuno] does mention the possibility of running several ARM processors in parallel, or using a dictionary (or rainbow table) to speed things up. Either way it’s an interesting project to try on the hardware.
Src: nunoalves.com
on September 13th, 2012 at 11:33 pm
Is Beaglebone paid or free ? Can you please tell me as I cannot afford it.
on September 20th, 2012 at 10:37 am
learn to read