# cupp.py - Common User Passwords Profiler

 
## About

  The most common form of authentication is the combination of a username
  and a password or passphrase. If both match values stored within a locally
  stored table, the user is authenticated for a connection. Password strength is
  a measure of the difficulty involved in guessing or breaking the password
  through cryptographic techniques or library-based automated testing of
  alternate values.

  A weak password might be very short or only use alphanumberic characters,
  making decryption simple. A weak password can also be one that is easily
  guessed by someone profiling the user, such as a birthday, nickname, address,
  name of a pet or relative, or a common word such as God, love, money or password.

  That is why CUPP has born, and it can be used in situations like legal
  penetration tests or forensic crime investigations.



## Options

  Usage: cupp.py [OPTIONS]

        -h      this menu

        -i      Interactive questions for user password profiling

        -w      Use this option to profile existing dictionary,
                or WyD.pl output to make some pwnsauce :)

        -l      Download huge wordlists from repository

        -a      Parse default usernames and passwords directly from Alecto DB.
                Project Alecto uses purified databases of Phenoelit and CIRT which where merged and enhanced.

        -v      Version of the program



## Configuration

   CUPP has configuration file cupp.cfg with instructions.


## License

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
  any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

  See './LICENSE' for more information.

## Github import

This project was imported into https://github.com/Mebus/cupp by Mebus from:  
http://www.remote-exploit.org/content/cupp-3.0.tar.gz  
http://www.remote-exploit.org/articles/misc_research__amp_code/index.html  
to encourage further developement of the tool.

## Original author

  Muris Kurgas aka j0rgan  
  j0rgan@remote-exploit.org  
  http://www.remote-exploit.org  
  http://www.azuzi.me  


## Contributors

  * Bosko Petrovic aka bolexxx  
  bole_loser@hotmail.com  
  http://www.offensive-security.com  
  http://www.bolexxx.net  

  * Mebus  
    https://github.com/Mebus/  

  * Abhro  
    https://github.com/Abhro/  

  * Andrea Giacomo  
    https://github.com/codepr

