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Bug#380328: ITP: pdfcrack -- PDF files password cracker
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| Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29, 7:33 am |
| Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <chipi@criptonita.com>
* Package name : pdfcrack
Version : 0.7
Upstream Author : Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : PDF files password cracker
pdfcrack is a simple tool for recovering passwords from pdf-documents.
It should be able to handle all pdfs that uses the standard security handler
but the pdf-parsing routines are a bit of a quick hack so you might stumble
across some pdfs where the parser needs to be fixed to handle.
pdfcrack allows configure the size of the searched password, use an
external wordlist file and save cracking sessions to restore it later.
This software uses xpdf/poppler stuff (categorized as free).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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| Christoph Berg 2006-07-29, 7:33 am |
| Re: Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29 <20060729131648.52af9b95.chipi@criptonita.com>
> What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like
> "john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'?
Cracking pdfs is not something an admin would usually do.
Christoph
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| Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29, 7:33 am |
| Hi,
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:02:37 +0200
Nacho Barrientos Arias <chipi@criptonita.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <chipi@criptonita.com>
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> * Package name : pdfcrack
> Version : 0.7
> Upstream Author : Henning Noren <confusion42@users.sourceforge.net>
> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcrack
> * License : GPL
> programming Lang: C
> Description : PDF files password cracker
>
> pdfcrack is a simple tool for recovering passwords from pdf-documents.
> It should be able to handle all pdfs that uses the standard security handler
> but the pdf-parsing routines are a bit of a quick hack so you might stumble
> across some pdfs where the parser needs to be fixed to handle.
>
> pdfcrack allows configure the size of the searched password, use an
> external wordlist file and save cracking sessions to restore it later.
>
What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like
"john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'?
Thanks,
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| Thijs Kinkhorst 2006-07-29, 7:33 am |
| On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 13:16 +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
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> What could be the best section for this package? 'admin' like
> "john" (pdfcrack has got a similar behaviour) or 'utils'?
"john" is in admin because it's intended to be run by the administrator
to check if any of the users have a weak password. "pdfcrack" is to be
used by a user who has forgotten the password of a PDF, thus making it
more suitable for 'utils' or 'text'.
Thijs
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| Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-29, 7:33 am |
| Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:18:49 +0200
Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
> Cracking pdfs is not something an admin would usually do.
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> Christoph
Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> wrote:
> "john" is in admin because it's intended to be run by the administrator
> to check if any of the users have a weak password. "pdfcrack" is to be
> used by a user who has forgotten the password of a PDF, thus making it
> more suitable for 'utils' or 'text'.
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Just what i was thinking, i agree with your answers.
Thank you,
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| Neil McGovern 2006-07-30, 7:30 am |
| On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
> * Package name : pdfcrack
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[snip]
> This software uses xpdf/poppler stuff (categorized as free).
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Hi there,
Does this use xpdf or poppler? 
poppler is a fork of xpdf which allows dynamic linking, so is much
preferred from a security-support POV.
Neil
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| Nacho Barrientos Arias 2006-07-30, 7:30 am |
| Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:17:10 +0100
Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote:
> [snip]
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> Hi there,
>
> Does this use xpdf or poppler?
> poppler is a fork of xpdf which allows dynamic linking, so is much
> preferred from a security-support POV.
Extracted from README file (upstream sources):
"Parts of pdfcrack.c and md5.c is derived/copied/inspired from
xpdf/poppler and are copyright 1995-2006 Glyph & Cog, LLC."
Nacho
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