You can also manage the number of threads used, as well as the connection timing, max connection errors, thread creation speed and other values. You can supply a user-defined charset of use a pre-defined one.

You can use passwords from wordlists, feed them from stdin or use a variety of brute force methods. Since version 0.29.9 Chimera supports IPv6. It currently supports ftp, http, http-proxy, imap, ldap, mysql, nntp, pop3, telnet protocols. Chimera was designed to be a fast, thread based, remote password cracking tool.