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Brutus - Introduction & Overview Jan 28th 2000

What does Brutus do?
In simple terms, Brutus is an online or remote password cracker. More specifically it is a remote interactive authentication agent. Brutus is used to recover valid access tokens (usually a username and password) for a given target system. Examples of a supported target system might be an FTP server, a password protected web page, a router console a POP3 server etc. It is used primarily in two contexts :

To obtain the valid access tokens for a particular user on a particular target.
To obtain any valid access tokens on a particular target where only target penetration is required.

What is a target?
Well that depends on you. As far as Brutus is concerned a target is a remote system and possibly a remote user on a remote system, there is more. To engage any given target we require an attack method, generally we only perform one type of remote attack - that is we attempt to positivley authenticate with......

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