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Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?

From: "Vikas Singhal" <vikas.programmer () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:24:19 +0530

Hi Friends,

Nowaday, I am studying on the Topic - Cracking Windows password.

There are lot of tools out there which can dump LM and NTLM hashes for
you. But as far i know, you can't touch the SAM file when windows is
running, so, how does these tools work.

Is the sam dumped in-memory?

Regards
V

Current thread:

Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Vikas Singhal (Jul 14)
- Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Rob Thompson (Jul 15)
  - Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Adriel Desautels (Jul 15)
    - RE: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Eric Snyder (Jul 15)
    - Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Adriel Desautels (Jul 15)
    - Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Jorge L. Vazquez (Jul 16)
    - Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Dave Hull (Jul 16)
    - Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works? Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 16)
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    - Passwords: length vs. complexity (was: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?) Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 18)
    - RE: Passwords: length vs. complexity (was: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?) Rivest, Philippe (Jul 21)
    - Re: Passwords: length vs. complexity Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 21)

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