README.md

# Brute Forcing A Password

## Overview

This program implements a basic brute force password hash cracker that attempts to match user-provided hashes to their corresponding passwords. The program is designed to demonstrate how hash cracking can work, using user-input hashes and brute-force attempts with customizable password lengths and character sets.

## Features

- Accepts user-provided hashes and passwords for testing.
- Reads additional hash-password pairs from a CSV file.
- Uses SHA256 to hash password attempts for comparison.
- Employs a brute-force algorithm to generate possible passwords based on a specified character set and length range.
- Reports whether the password hash was successfully cracked.
- Measures and displays the time taken for the brute force process.

## Repository Structure

```
password-hash-cracker/
├── README.md           # Documentation for the project
├── Bruteforce.py          # Main script for hash cracking
├── sha256_hashes.csv   # Sample CSV file with hashes and passwords
```

## Prerequisites

Ensure the following are installed and available in your environment:

- Python 3.x
- Standard Python libraries:
  - `itertools`
  - `csv`
  - `time`
  - `hashlib`

## How It Works

1. **User Input**: The program prompts the user to input the number of hash-password pairs they want to provide.
2. **CSV File**: The program reads additional hash-password pairs from a file named `sha256_hashes.csv`.
3. **Brute Force**: For each hash, the program attempts to brute force the corresponding password by generating all possible combinations of characters within a specified length range.
4. **Comparison**: The generated hash is compared to the provided hash. If a match is found, the password is "cracked"; otherwise, the program continues until a maximum attempt limit is reached.
5. **Output**: The program prints whether the cracking attempt was successful for each hash and reports the time taken for the process.