I am using the password cracking project and it is taking forever to guess passwords like Test123. I am aslo wondering if i am putting the test your own password right
# This is a place for you to set a password of your own
password0 = "314"
# Set up the passwords we want to crack. These must be MD5 hash
# data blocks. Set them up using MD5me like:
# 'password1=MD5me("ScienceBuddies")'
#
password1="68eacb97d86f0c4621fa2b0e17cabd8c"
I put the password in password 1. Is that right? Also why is it taking so long?
It looks like MD5me is a method. If that is the case, you need to call it like this when you initialize password0:
password0=MD5me("314")
Also, I think password1 has already been declared by the coders at Science Buddies.
Have you tried Science Buddies's example code? The project's description says that it has a weakness; perhaps the author was referring to the speed at which the code cracks passwords.
If you did not use the Science Buddies example code, I would need to see what you have come up with in order to try to see why execution is taking as long as it is. I will warn you that I do not have experience with Python, but it looks similar to some other languages that I have used.
I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask any other questions you might have.