seabreg/md5cracker

A Hardware MD5 Cracker for the Cyclone V SoC

This is an FPGA MD5 cracker for the Cyclone V SoC. You can find a detailed dicussion of its use and implementation in parts V-VII of my Cyclone V Tutorial.

Compiling the FPGA Programming File

1. Open the "soc_system.qsys" file in Qsys and generate the system
2. Run the "fix_generated_system.sh" script to patch the generated top-level Verilog file. (Sorry, there's some weird but in Qsys)
3. Run compilation in Quartus

Compiling and Running the Benchmark Program

To compile the benchmark program, go into the "software" directory and run

make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- hwmd5sum

Copy the executable to your SD card. On the HPS, program the FPGA, enable the lightweight HPS-to-FPGA bridge, and run the hwmd5sum program.

Compiling and Running the Reference Program

Also included in the software/ directory are executables reference and reference_bench. The former is a reference software implementation of the md5 algorithm that takes its input from stdin. You can use it to compute the md5 sum of a file like so

./reference < filename

The reference_bench program implements a benchmark similar to hwmd5sum, but with the md5 algorithm implemented in software.