eapmd5pass alternatives
Looking for an alternative tool to replace eapmd5pass? During the review of eapmd5pass we looked at other open source tools. Based on their category, tags, and text, these are the ones that have the best match.
Alternatives (by score)
acccheck
Introduction
The acccheck tool performs a password guessing and dictionary attack on SMB services used to share files and printers.Project details
acccheck is written in Perl.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- - No updates for a while
Typical usage
- Password discovery
- Password strength testing
Patator
Introduction
Patator is based on similar tools like Hydra, yet with the goal to avoid the common flaws these tools have like performance limitations. The tool is modular and supports different types of brute-force attacks or enumeration of information.
Project details
Patator is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 500 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Password discovery
- Penetration testing
- Reconnaissance
- Vulnerability scanning
THC Hydra (thc-hydra)
Introduction
THC Hydra is a brute-force cracking tool for remote authentication services. It supports many protocols, including telnet, FTP, LDAP, SSH, SNMP, and others.Project details
THC Hydra is written in C.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 1000 GitHub stars
- + Project is mature (10+ years)
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Penetration testing
- Security assessment
hashcat
Introduction
Hashcat can be used to discover lost passwords, or as part of a security assignment. For example, it could be trying to crack a password from a password file that was obtained during a penetration test.
Project details
hashcat is written in C.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 4000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known tool
Typical usage
- Password discovery
Crowbar
Introduction
While most brute forcing tools take a similar approach, Crowbar can use different methods that are not always available in other utilities. For example, Crowbar can use SSH keys, instead of the typical username and password combination. This might be useful during penetration testing when these type of details are discovered.
Project details
Crowbar is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Penetration testing
PassGen
Introduction
PassGen is a tool to help with password dictionary attacks to guess a password. It does not perform the attack but creates the related database.Project details
PassGen is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Password discovery
- Password strength testing
- Security assessment
mimipenguin
Introduction
The tool requires root permissions to work.
Project details
mimipenguin is written in Python, shell script.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- - No releases on GitHub available
- - Full name of author is unknown
Typical usage
- Information gathering
- Security assessment
not24get
Introduction
API: pwdCheckModule object in ppolicy.
Executable: "check password script" in Samba suite (not24get_check)
This module is a wrapper around libpasswdqc, the library that powers the pam_passwdqc module.
Project details
not24get is written in C.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Password strength testing
Fail2ban
Introduction
Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacksProject details
Fail2ban is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 2000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Network traffic filtering
- Security monitoring
LogonTracer
Introduction
LogonTracer is a tool to investigate malicious logins from Windows event logs with visualization capabilities.
Project details
LogonTracer is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 500 contributors
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Criminal investigations
- Digital forensics
- Learning
Yosai
Introduction
Yosai is a security framework for Python applications and adds authentication, authorization, and session management capabilities. Features include Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), two-factor authentication, and Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP). Besides a focus on the authentication and authorization, Yosai enables an audit trail of all relevant events.
As each framework comes with some overhead, Yosai aims to leverage caching and serialization where possible.
Project details
Yosai is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Application security
- Audit logging
- Identity and access management
django-two-factor-auth (Django Two-Factor Authentication)
Introduction
A complete Two-Factor Authentication for Django. It leverages the django-otp tooling together with Django's authentication framework.Project details
John the Ripper
Introduction
John the Ripper is a mature password cracker to find weak or known passwords. It works on Linux and other flavors of Unix and Microsoft Windows.
Project details
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