RE: How many password cracking programs are there?

["Andrew Williams" <Andrew () Syngress com>]

I know Dave Kleiman already mentioned it, but take a look at a chapter
from Mark Burnett's book (tech edited by Dave) dealing with this and
similar issues:
http://www.syngress.com/book_catalog/342_PSWRD/sample.pdf

Andrew Williams
Vice President & Publisher
Syngress Publishing
www.syngress.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Winshel [mailto:winshel () camden rutgers edu] 
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:16 PM
> To: Hollis via Rubicon Recluse; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: How many password cracking programs are there?
>
> It is a good overview of password cracking but I didn't see 
> that it addressed anything about strong passphrases.
>
> At 01:12 PM 7/24/2006, Hollis via Rubicon Recluse wrote:
> > I think wikipedia did a pretty good job of explaining the 
> various ways 
> > to crack passwords.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking
> >
> > At 03:44 PM 7/22/2006 +0000, winshel () camden rutgers edu wrote:
> > > This may seem like a silly question but, in many discussions of how 
> > > windows password cracking programs work, it seems that the 
> same small 
> > > number of password cracking programs are mentioned (e.g., John the 
> > > Ripper,L0phtCrack,).
> > >
> > > In order to understand how to protect a windows computer 
> from password 
> > > cracking software, it would seem necessary to understand how the 
> > > current password cracking programs work.  But, aren't there 
> lots and 
> > > lots and lots of password cracking programs?  There's tens of 
> > > thousands of virus programs - is there not a large number 
> of password 
> > > cracking programs?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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