Character Soup

Generates sequential brute-forced text.

A soup of characters. 🍅🌽🍲🍰

Supporting different languages:

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Python
• C#
• Java
• C++

🕐 Benchmarking in development.

How does it work?

// Set the maximum text length:
const MAX_LENGTH = 4;

// Set the characters to be used:
const CHARACTERS = "0123456789";

// Create an array of all combinations,
// Total of c^(n!), c = |CHARACTERS|, n = |MAX_LENGTH|
// For example: ["0", "1", "2", ... , "9997", "9998", "9999"];

What is character soup for?

Originally, this was one of the earlies pieces of software I wrote, in Visual Basic. To illustrate how quickly it is to run through all 4-digit PIN codes. :no_entry_sign: :lock: :key: :unlock: :heavy_check_mark:

Now, password systems are properly protected with reCAPTCHA, multi-factor authentication, password-entry limits and more. It is still interesting to show how quickly a password can be brute-forced.

Hive Systems have a great cybersecurity infographic for this system.

In 2022:

In 2023:

In 2023 using dedicated AI hardware:

Remember to celebrate World Password Day on the first Thursday of May. 📆

Keep your accounts safe. Ensure that:

• 🔒 Your passwords are unique across all services.
• 🔒 Your passwords aren't all "password".
• 🔒 You are using multi-factor authentication where possible.
• 🔐 Avoid publishing API credentials, especially keys, to public repositories.

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