Re: How many password cracking programs are there?

[Harold Winshel <winshel () camden rutgers edu>]

Thanks.  My concern is that in order to defend against password 
cracking programs it would be necessary to know how the password 
cracking programs work.

It just seemed funny that the same two or three password cracking 
programs get most of the mention.  I figure that a lot of the 
password cracking programs must be incorporating passphrase cracking routines.

Harold


At 12:53 PM 7/24/2006, Saqib Ali wrote:
> There might be numerous password crackers, but the techniques they use
> are similar. In fact they can be divided into few categories:
>
> 1) Brute-force (offline/online)
> 2) Dictionary (offline/online)
> 3) Xieve (ignores non-sense combinations)
> 4) hybrid
> 5) rainbow tables
> 6) precomputation of hashes
>
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