How to encrypt all possible strings in a defined character set python?

Question

I am trying to encrypt all possible strings in a defined character set then compare them to a hash given by user input.

This is what I currently have

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Answer 1

Here's my completely different answer based on J.F. Sebastian's answer and comment about my previous answer. The most important point being that crypt.METHOD_CRYPT is not a callable even though the documentation somewhat confusingly calls a hashing method as if it were a method function of a module or an instance. It's not -- just think of it as an id or name of one of the various kinds of encryption supported by the crypt module.

So the problem with you code is two-fold: One is that you were trying to use wordchars as a string, when it actually a tuple produced by product() and second, that you're trying to call the id crypt.METHOD_CRYPT.

I'm at a bit of a disadvantage answering this because I'm not running Unix, don't have Python v3.3 installed, and don't completely understand what you're trying to accomplish with your code. Given all those caveats, I think something like the following which is derived from you code ought to at least run:

import string
from itertools import product
import crypt

def decrypt():
    hash1 = input("Please enter the hash: ")
    salt = input("Please enter the salt: ")
    charSet = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
    for wordchars in product(charSet, repeat=2):
        hash2 = crypt.crypt(''.join(wordchars), salt=salt)  # or salt=crypt.METHOD_CRYPT
        print(hash2)