Friday, 11 January 2013

My Raspberry Pi Cluster :)

So my final year project is to make a cluster of raspberry pi micro computers to crack encrypted office documents and here is my pi cluster :)


The distributed document cracker is based on John the Ripper which I've already started to contribute to
I have a prototype for distributing John already built and while its not ready for public release everything made as part of this project will be open source once I feel the code is ready. (Probably under the MIT license)

Below is a gallery of how it got to this state. Sorry about the blurry images, I'm not a great photographer.































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12 comments:

  1. Unknown12 January 2013 at 05:39

    Well done you little technophile, here's to an affordable supercomputer in every household!

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  2. Anonymous15 January 2013 at 02:08

    Sweet. Can we get a usable OS and GUI on there?

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    1. ShaneQful15 January 2013 at 21:57

      They are all using raspbian. There isn't a OS running over the whole cluster I'm just using custom code & a master slave architecture to distribute john the ripper across the cluster.

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  3. Unknown16 January 2013 at 04:41

    Clean up the Ethernet cable there is no reason for it to be such a mess.

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    1. ShaneQful5 February 2013 at 11:13

      Sorry don't have crimpers & I was provided with 1 meter cables so there is a reason ;P

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  4. afkham1 February 2013 at 12:07

    Nice project. Take a look at our attempt at building a Raspberry Pi cluster http://blog.afkham.org/2013/01/raspberry-pi-control-center.html

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    1. ShaneQful5 February 2013 at 11:16

      Cool dude your wiring is certainly better than mine :)

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    2. afkham19 February 2013 at 07:13

      Wiring can soon become very hard to manage :)

      Take a look at the follow on blog post which contains information about the Aluminium rack we built http://blog.afkham.org/2013/02/building-raspberry-pi-cluster-part-2.html

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  5. Yazzid8 February 2013 at 09:26

    can I distribute john the ripper across a Linux cluster? I am running 5 machines (Core 2 Duo)?

    would you mind making a guide for beginners please?

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    1. ShaneQful8 February 2013 at 13:10

      Once I'm finished you should be able too. I'll be open sourcing the code and I'll probably put a guide up on the blog.

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    2. ShaneQful6 May 2013 at 16:01

      I've finished most of the software if you'd like to try it out. There's not automatic recovery system if a node goes down but chances are it won't matter and there are script to help humans recover any data.

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