How to Install and Uninstall bruteforce-salted-openssl Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "bruteforce-salted-openssl" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install bruteforce-salted-openssl on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bruteforce-salted-openssl
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bruteforce-salted-openssl" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall bruteforce-salted-openssl on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bruteforce-salted-openssl
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bruteforce-salted-openssl package on Kali Linux

Package: bruteforce-salted-openssl
Version: 1.4.2-4
Installed-Size: 54
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Size: 19988
SHA256: 33839be30ad675cb80c7878ab73cea3730a9850616964fde5d33f7c1e67dd690
SHA1: 1bd27865873d53a842bc5a413641b5038ce58453
MD5sum: 237573e3571f3b9ef603bde0dec867d4
Description: try to find the passphrase for files encrypted with OpenSSL
bruteforce-salted-openssl try to find the passphrase or password of a file
that was encrypted with the openssl command. It can be used in two ways:
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- Try all possible passwords given a charset.
- Try all passwords in a file (dictionary).
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bruteforce-salted-openssl have the following features:
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- You can specify the number of threads to use when cracking a file.
- The program should be able to use all the digests and symmetric ciphers
available with the OpenSSL libraries installed on your system.
- Sending a USR1 signal to a running bruteforce-salted-openssl process
makes it print progress and continue.
- There are an exhaustive mode and a dictionary mode.
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In the exhaustive mode the program tries to decrypt the file by trying all
possible passwords. It is especially useful if you know something about the
password (i.e. you forgot a part of your password but still remember most of
it). Finding the password of the file without knowing anything about it would
take way too much time (unless the password is really short and/or weak).
There are some command line options to specify:
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- The minimum password length to try.
- The maximum password length to try.
- The beginning of the password.
- The end of the password.
- The character set to use (among the characters of the current locale).
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In dictionary mode the program tries to decrypt the file by trying all the
passwords contained in a file. The file must have one password per line.
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This package is useful for security, pentests and forensics investigations.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-salted-openssl
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bruteforce-salted-openssl/bruteforce-salted-openssl_1.4.2-4_amd64.deb