Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:47:32 +0200
From: nix@...roxylists.com
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: NiX - Linux Brute Forcer (the beast) has been
 released!]]

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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] NiX - Linux Brute Forcer (the beast) has
been released!]
From:    "Ryan Sears" <rdsears@....edu>
Date:    Fri, November 12, 2010 6:59 pm
To:      nix@...roxylists.com
Cc:      full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
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Well that's not really a useful response. He asked a simple question (the
first one that popped into my head as well).

Basically it comes down to this: THC's Hydra already does all that stuff,
and they've been doing it for years and years. How does your tool fit in
with it? It sounds like you basically coded the exact same thing, and
while frustrating - happens.

Medusa:
Medusa is a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for
network services created by the geeks at Foofus.net. It currently has
modules for the following services: CVS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, MS-SQL, MySQL,
NCP (NetWare), PcAnywhere, POP3, PostgreSQL, rexec, rlogin, rsh, SMB, SMTP
(VRFY), SNMP, SSHv2, SVN, Telnet, VmAuthd, VNC, and a generic wrapper
module.

THC-Hydra:
Currently this tool supports:
  TELNET, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP-PROXY, SMB, SMBNT, MS-SQL, MYSQL, REXEC,
  RSH, RLOGIN, CVS, SNMP, SMTP-AUTH, SOCKS5, VNC, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, PCNFS,
  ICQ, SAP/R3, LDAP2, LDAP3, Postgres, Teamspeak, Cisco auth, Cisco enable,
  AFP, LDAP2, Cisco AAA (incorporated in telnet module).

Comparison between the two (keep in mind hydra is currently at 5.8 and
medusa is at v2):
http://www.foofus.net/~jmk/medusa/medusa-compare.html

These can crack any authentication protocol that I can really think of,
and they're stable. People are probably not going to stop using what they
know how to use, especially if it works and fills up the space the tool is
required for nicely (as both of these currently do).

>How does your tool provide any advantage over this? Not to mention that
>password brute-forcing is rarely needed for anything even remotely
>constructive, if you want to make sure people's passwords are secure -
>enforce better password policies, because even aaaaaaa9! is still better
>than aaaa (or god, sex, love, and secret :-P). People are getting
smarter >with their passwords (for the most part) which is largely
rendering >password cracking pretty useless IMHO. There are normally much
better and >more efficient ways of gaining access to a machine than brute
force >anyway, it's noisy and probably going to be noticed. Even breaking
basic >passwords over the internet takes forever, because a lot smarter
people >then myself have coded the crypto in most cases to be quite
strong.
>Ryan

Again, please read the features listed at my site. It offers the features
no other tool provides. Where is for example FORM auto-detection for those
other tools? Where is SOCKS4 proxy support? Where is proxy randomization?
Where is logic to drop dead proxies? Where is logic for fake-detection?

If offers more than reasonable features over any other tool. I do not
force none to use my tool if you have fallen in love with those other
tools and you are simply too blind to see advantages using NiX.

I can obviously see none actually does bother reading anything properly
and keep asking me the same questions.

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From: nix@...roxylists.com
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:23:18 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] NiX - Linux Brute Forcer (the beast) has
been released!]

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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] NiX - Linux Brute Forcer (the beast) has
been released!
From:    "Abuse 007" <abuse007@...il.com>
Date:    Fri, November 12, 2010 3:22 am
To:      nix@...roxylists.com
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>> Why would we use this tool over say Hydra or Medusa?

I have just compiled Hydra first time (don´t know about Medusa, please
link me). Obviously you did not read nor understood features it offers
over any other similar tool.

Please read again features listed at my site and you get the answer to
your question.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM,  <nix@...roxylists.com> wrote:
> NiX Brute Forcer is a parallel login brute-forcer. This tool is intended
> to demonstrate the importance of choosing strong passwords. The goal of
> NiX is to support a variety of services that allow remote authentication
> such as: HTTP(S) BASIC/FORM, MySQL, SSH, FTP. It is based on NiX Proxy
> Checker.
>
> If anyone is interested in beta testing new releases before the public
> release, please sent me an email.
>
> Current features:
>
> - Basic Authorization & FORM support
> - HTTP/SOCKS 4 and 5 proxy support
> - FORM auto-detection & Manual FORM input configuration.
> - It is multi-threaded
> - Auto-removal of dead or unreliable proxy and when site protection
> mechanism blocks the proxy
> - Integrated proxy randomization to defeat certain protection mechanisms
> - With Success and Failure Keys results are 99% accurate
> - Wordlist shuffling via macros
> - Advanced coding and timeout settings makes it outperform any other brute
> forcer
>
> TODO:
>
> MySQL, SSH, FTP and IMAP support. You suggest more?
>
>
> Download and installation: http://myproxylists.com/nix-brute-force
>
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