THC-Hydra is a very fast (multi-threaded) network logon cracker which supports many different services: afp, cisco, cisco-enable, cvs, firebird, ftp, http-get, http-head, http-proxy, https-get, https-head, httpsform-get, https-form-post, icq, imap, imap-ntlm, ldap2, ldap3, mssql, mysql,...
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS (the latter requires a contributed patch)....
A password and cryptography attack that does not attempt to decrypt any information, but continue to try a list of different passwords, words, or letters. For example, a simple brute-force attack may have a...
