More Password Cracking Simulation

Difficulty

Brute force can only solve up to 5 characters

Task Distribution

• Divide input into small size of tasks
• Distribute tasks to different process
• Keep track of the progress
• Manage sessions

Design

• Create a small server to manage tasks, progress, checkpoints
• Workers ask for jobs from the server

Working itmes

• Generate inputs
• Distribute tasks
• Collect unsolved hashes
• Manage sessions, checkpoints
• Pause and resume

Problem

Task too small cannot fully ultilize the hardware, so hashcat won't run in full speed.