RE: Senior M$ member says stop using passwords completely!

[James.McKinlay () cnm co uk]

> Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Senior M$ member says stop using passwords 
completely!
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:42:17 -0500
> From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
> To: "Pavel Kankovsky" <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>,
>   <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
>
> I was under the understand that passwords of over 14 characters were
> stored with a more secure hash, therefore 14 characters passwords were
> harder to crack, due to the more secure hash. Windows will create two
> different hashes for passwords shorting than 14 characters, I do
> believe.
>
> Just use a non-printable character in your password and cracking is
> useless...if they crack it, they can't read what they cracked. ;) 

Would it not be possible to modify the cracking program to include an 
output
for the successful string that displayed like Unix/linux command 
octal-dump [ od -c ] ??

mtcw
J.


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