ZipPasswordCracker

Welcome to ZipPasswordCracker, a powerful tool designed to crack passwords of encrypted zip files by traversing all possible password combinations.

Features

• Multi-threaded CPU/GPU operations:
  • Leverage CUDA for GPU acceleration and multi-threading for CPU parallelism
  • Pipeline architecture for simutaneous GPU candidate generation and CPU validation
• Password character set support:
  • Numeric passwords: Initial suport for numeric-only passwords (0-9).
  • Expanded character sets: Added support for letters (a-z, A-Z) and special characters.
• AES encryption compatibility: Works with zip files encrypted using the AES method.
• Configuration file: Customize settings via a config.toml file for seamless operation

Build & Installation

Prerequisites

• Compilers:

  • gcc (GNU11 standard)
  • g++ (C++20 standard)
  • nvcc (CUDA toolkit)
  • cargo (Rust compler for validation component)

• Steps

  1. Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/LipidL/ZipPasswordCracker
  cd ZipPasswordCracker

  2. Build the project

  make

  this will compile:

  • CUDA kernel for password candidate generation
  • C++ host code for pipeline management
  • Rust component (compiled to a dynamic library) for password validation

  3. Add the current directory to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to make sure that the OS can load the compled dynamic library while running the program

  4. Configure settings in config.toml You can generate a default config.toml by running

  ./cracker_cuda init

  5. Run the tool

  ./cracker_cuda

Future Enhancements

We're constantly working to improve ZipPasswordCracker. Here are some features we're planning to add:

• 7z support: Extend cracking capabilities to 7z files.
• Progress bar: Add a progress bar for real-time status monitoring.

Technical Details

Hybrid C++/Rust Implementation

• The C++/CUDA core generates password candidates on the GPU.
• A Rust comiled dynamic library validates candidates against the zip file using the zip crate.

Dependencies

• C++: Requires C++20 for template metaprogramming.
• Rust: Uses the zip crate for validation
• TOML Parsing: Uses toml11 (C++ TOML library) for configuration

Acknowledgement

This project uses the zip crate from Rust for validating passwords after CUDA validation. The zip crate can be found at crates.io.

This project also uses the toml11 package for configuration file parsing. The toml11 package can be found at github.