Investigation into DES cracking with John the Ripper and Ztex FPGA
DES has not been considered safe for a long time. For some time now, cracking tool John the Ripp has even made it possible to accelerate cracking with FPGAs. Since I find this topic exciting, I tried it with an FPGA board.
System
- Lenovo Thinkpad X230
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ztex 1.15y FPGA Board
Install necessary requirements:
sudo apt install libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev libgmp-dev libkrb5-dev libnss3-dev libpcap0.8-dev libpcap-dev libssl-dev libusb-dev pkg-config python-usb yasm zlib1g-dev libusb-1.0 git
Clone John the Ripper
mkdir ~/gits cd ~/gits git clone https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper.git cd ~/gits/JohnTheRipper/src ./configure --enable-ztex make -s clean && make -sj4
We generate a new example shadow file, to test the DES cracking
root:roEhj0vy.MdZw:16560:0:99999:7::: daemon:*:16560:0:99999:7::: bin:*:16560:0:99999:7::: sys:*:16560:0:99999:7::: sync:*:16560:0:99999:7::: games:*:16560:0:99999:7::: man:*:16560:0:99999:7::: lp:*:16560:0:99999:7::: mail:*:16560:0:99999:7::: news:*:16560:0:99999:7::: uucp:*:16560:0:99999:7::: proxy:*:16560:0:99999:7::: www-data:*:16560:0:99999:7::: backup:*:16560:0:99999:7::: list:*:16560:0:99999:7::: irc:*:16560:0:99999:7::: gnats:*:16560:0:99999:7::: nobody:*:16560:0:99999:7::: messagebus:!:16560:0:99999:7:::
And test the cracking with the following parameters
sudo ~/gits/JohnTheRipper/run/john -form=descrypt-ztex --progress-every=60 -inc=lower -min-len=8 -max-len=8 -mask='?w?l?l?l?l' shadow
The output should look like this
SN: XXXXXXXXXX productId: 10.15.0.0 "inouttraffic 1.0.0 JtR" busnum:1 devnum:6 Using default input encoding: UTF-8 Loaded 1 password hash (descrypt-ztex, traditional crypt(3) [DES ZTEX]) SN XXXXXXXXXX FPGA #2 error: pkt_comm_status=0x01, debug=0x0000 SN XXXXXXXXXX error -1 doing r/w of FPGAs (LIBUSB_ERROR_IO) SN XXXXXXXXXX FPGA #2 error: pkt_comm_status=0x09, debug=0x0000 SN XXXXXXXXXX error -1 doing r/w of FPGAs (LIBUSB_ERROR_IO) Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status testtest (root) 1g 0:00:00:02 DONE (2020-02-10 14:10) 0.3875g/s 952210Kp/s 952210Kc/s 952210KC/s testtest..tonyaikz Use the "--show" option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably Session completed
Where did you get the board? I wanna make some experiments like yours but finding a compatible board has proven to be a very difficult task. I would really appreciate if you could give directions on how to get one.
I bought it on eBay… When i bought it there were quite a lot of these available… But currently I do not find any boards.