Cryptography and Authentication

Crafting a Brute Force Password Cracker

Learn how to automate password guessing techniques using Python. This section covers the fundamentals of brute force attacks, including generating password combinations, implementing efficient guessing algorithms, and handling various password formats. You’ll also explore methods to optimize your cracker for speed and effectiveness against different types of password protection.

Encrypting and Decrypting Messages

Dive into the world of cryptography by implementing custom encryption algorithms. This module teaches you how to create both symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods, manage keys securely, and build functions for encrypting and decrypting messages. You’ll gain hands-on experience with popular encryption standards and learn how to apply them in real-world scenarios.

Exploiting Weak Encryption with Python

Discover how to identify and crack insecure encryption schemes using Python. This section explores common vulnerabilities in encryption implementations, techniques for analyzing encrypted data, and methods for exploiting weaknesses in cryptographic systems. You’ll learn to recognize patterns in weak encryption and develop tools to automate the process of breaking poorly secured data.

Steganography: Hiding Data in Images

Explore the art of concealing messages within multimedia files, focusing on image steganography. This module covers various techniques for embedding secret data in images, including least significant bit (LSB) manipulation and more advanced methods. You’ll learn how to create Python scripts that can both hide and extract hidden information from different image formats.

Bypassing Authentication Mechanisms

Learn how to manipulate login systems using Python scripts. This section delves into common authentication vulnerabilities, techniques for bypassing login forms, and methods for exploiting weak session management. You’ll develop skills in crafting custom scripts to automate the process of finding and exploiting authentication flaws in web applications and other systems.

Breaking Hash Functions with Python

Master the techniques for brute forcing weak hashes to recover passwords. This module covers different types of hash functions, their vulnerabilities, and methods for attacking them. You’ll learn to create efficient hash cracking tools, utilize rainbow tables, and leverage GPU acceleration for faster cracking. The section also explores techniques for salting and key stretching to enhance hash security.

Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Discover methods to exploit weak two-factor authentication mechanisms using Python. This section examines various 2FA implementations, their potential vulnerabilities, and techniques for bypassing them. You’ll learn about time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), SMS-based authentication, and how to create scripts that can intercept or predict 2FA codes in vulnerable systems.

Password Spraying Attacks in Python

Learn to automate low-and-slow password attacks using Python. This module covers the concept of password spraying, its advantages over traditional brute force methods, and techniques for evading detection. You’ll develop scripts to perform distributed password spraying attacks, manage target lists, and automate the process of testing common passwords across multiple accounts or systems.