Dictionary based bruteforce on a RSA Private Key

security,ssl-certificate,public-key-encryption,dictionary-attack,john-the-ripper

I wrote small python script to do what I wanted. I put the key under the name "ssl.key" and the word list in a file called "wl.lst". Here's the complete code: from subprocess import PIPE, Popen import subprocess import sys def cmdline(command): proc = subprocess.Popen(str(command), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) (out, err)...

.c Files on Slax-Linux

c,linux,terminal,john-the-ripper

It appears that you are attempting to execute a C file as though it is a shell script. C files (such as john.c) are not script files that can be executed by a shell. Rather, C files are compiled by a compiler, then linked to create an executable....