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Crack Me If You Can 2013

DEF CON 21 contest materials with InsidePro Team winning Pro and brad (16 Systems) winning Street, plus scoreboards, downloads, rules, and hash-type breakdowns.

Event
DEF CON 21
Dates
August 1-3, 2013
Street Winner
brad (16 Systems)

Team brad (16 Systems)

Original external writeup URL: http://16s.us/16crack/defcon_2013/ (dead link)

Resources

Active Members 1
Names Brad Tilley
Software Word Machine, John the Ripper, crackpkcs12
Hardware 12 CPU cores/threads

Summary

I was team brad at the Defcon password cracking contest. I won 1st place in the street division. I used my own software (word machine) along with John the Ripper. No fancy, high-priced GPUs and no proprietary, closed-source software. There were 13 registered street teams.

Software I used

Summary of hardware used

  • Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 430 @1.80GHz
  • Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.60 GHz
  • Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz
  • AMD Phenom II 1090T

Passwords I cracked

  • cracks.txt (original URL: http://16s.us/16crack/defcon_2013/cracks.txt (dead link))

Final Notes

  • Thanks to KoreLogic for hosting the contest. You guys did a great job.
  • Special thanks to Solar Designer and john-devs. You guys write awesome software.
  • This is my last year of password cracking. I've made a case for pattern based password cracking. It works.
Date: Aug 4, 2013