Thread: CycleChars

Hello.
I have a table with 3 elements.e.g String table{"a","b","c"}
And I want the result to be like this:
aaa
aab
aac
aba
abb
abc
.
.
.
ccc
But I don't know how to do this.I would like to do this because I want to make a program to find out the password of some files with brute force.
If anyone know please help me.

I don't know, hacking passwords.... Use a nested for loop to loop through each value of the array.

Yes it's a homework assignment.
I use only digits from 0 to 8.
I wrote a program but my problem is that doesn't found the correct paswword.
I have a zip file with aes encryption and the code is (12345678) but the program doesn't found it.
Ιnstead of this it presents another codes.I discovered when the 3 first digits it isn't the digit 1 then presents the problem e.g(22111111,12222222).If the code is e.g(11114444,11112345) it founds it.
But whatever I select as a code it doesn't found it.
Here is my code:

import java.io.*;
import java.*;
import com.javamex.arcmexer.*;
 
public class Geo{
  private static char fCharList[] = {'1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8'};
  private static int len = 8;
  private static boolean stop;
  private static String foundWord;
 
  public static void Brute() 
    {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(len);
        char currentChar = fCharList[0];
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
        {
            sb.append(currentChar);
        }
 
        ChangeCharacters(0, sb);
        }
 
    public static StringBuffer ChangeCharacters(int pos, StringBuffer sb)
  {
       try {
FileInputStream f = new FileInputStream("C://op3.zip");
ArchiveReader r = ArchiveReader.getReader(f);
ArchiveEntry entry ;
while ((entry = r.nextEntry())!= null){
if (stop == false){
    for (int i = 0; i < len ; i++){
            sb.setCharAt(pos, fCharList[i]);
            if (pos == len - 1)
            {
             if (entry.isProbablyCorrectPassword(sb.toString())){
                stop = true;
            foundWord = sb.toString();
            break;
            }
            }else
            {
                ChangeCharacters(pos + 1 , sb);
            }
        }
    }     
}
}catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Exception raised!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
 return sb;
  }
    public static void Read(){
        try {
System.out.println("Working...");
    Brute();
    System.out.println("The password is: " + foundWord);
    }catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Exception raised!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Read();
    }
}

I suggest you take a trivial length password, e.g. 3 characters, and step through your code by hand with pencil and paper, keeping track of the variables. It shouldn't take you more than a few minutes to see what's wrong.

The previous problem , i had with the brute force was solved.Here is the code:

import java.io.*;
import java.*;
import com.javamex.arcmexer.*;
 
public class Brute_Force{
  private static char charList[] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j',
                                    'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't',
                                    'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D',
                                    'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N',
                                    'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X',
                                    'Y', 'Z','0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8'};
  private static int len = 8;
  private static String foundWord;
  private static String inputLine;
  private static boolean ok=true;
 
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    prompt();
  }
 
  public static void prompt()
  {
    try {
System.out.println("Give the path of the file");
BufferedReader flnm = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
inputLine = flnm.readLine();
System.out.println("What is the password of " + inputLine + " ? ");
    findWord();
    System.out.println("The password is: " + foundWord);
    }catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Exception raised!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
  }
 
  public static void findWord()
  {
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(len);
    char currChar = charList[0];
    for(int a = 0; a <len; a++){
      sb.append(currChar);
    }
    cycleChars(0, sb);
  }
 
  public static StringBuffer cycleChars(int pos, StringBuffer sb)
  {
      try{
FileInputStream f = new FileInputStream(inputLine);
ArchiveReader r = ArchiveReader.getReader(f);
ArchiveEntry entry ;
while ((entry = r.nextEntry())!= null && ok!=false){
   for(int i = 0; i < charList.length; i++){
        sb.setCharAt(pos, charList[i]);
        if (pos == len - 1){
            if (entry.isProbablyCorrectPassword(sb.toString())){
            foundWord = sb.toString();
            System.out.println("possible password found:"+foundWord);
            entry.setPassword(foundWord);
            InputStream in = entry.getInputStream();
            try{
                       in.read();
                       ok=false;
                       System.out.println("This is the password!!");
                    }catch(Exception ee)  {
                        ok=true;
                        System.out.println("This in not the password , try again");
                    }
                }
        }else
          cycleChars(pos + 1, sb);
      }
}
}catch (Exception e){
System.out.println("Exception raised!");
e.printStackTrace();
}
    return sb;
  }
}

Now I want the program not search all the charList[] but only the selection I want between the numbers,lower letters,upper letters and all of them.I want to make something like a selection list , that user select.I think that I need 4 more tables.One with the lower letters , one with uperr letters , one with the digits and one more.In last table they will be placed the selection from user.
And my other opinion is to use only one more table to place the selection from user.But I don't know how to get the selection from user and fill in the table. e.g If the user write a,1 then , the second table must fill with lower letters and numbers.So the brute force will be run only for the selections and not all the table.
So the program will be much faster and not search all the table without reason.