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Re: Password cracking benchmarks

From: Chris Green <cmgreen () UAB EDU>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:00:39 -0600

Thanks for the very good thread discussing this.  One of the mitigation
factors for the LANMAN hashes is to use a passphrase longer than 15
characters.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q299656&#XSLTH315912
1124120121120120

This is one of the things I'm trying to push our administrators to doing for
their passphrases.
--
Chris Green
UAB Data Security, 5-0842

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