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Re: Password Audit tools


From: GuidoZ <uberguidoz () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:13:39 -0500

If you have the time and disk space, Rainbow Crack is another very fast
cracker.  It creates tables of possible hashes based on the parameters
you set, such as "lower-case, numeric".  It takes about 640 megs for
letters and numbers.  It takes about 200 GIGS for special and alt chars.

When you crack, it is incredibly fast because the work is already done

Something to add to this - frequently when doing pen-tests, you'll
find that weak passwords are only alphanumeric. Generating the rainbow
tables and popping them onto a CD or large USB thumb drive (or usb
hdd)  works wonders. Then you can take them with and crack passwords
on the spot in minutes. (RainbowCrack will also run from a USB drive.)

--
Peace. ~G


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:30:35 -0800, John Forristel (SunGard-Chico)
<John.Forristel () sungardbi-tech com> wrote:

If you have the time and disk space, Rainbow Crack is another very fast
cracker.  It creates tables of possible hashes based on the parameters
you set, such as "lower-case, numeric".  It takes about 640 megs for
letters and numbers.  It takes about 200 GIGS for special and alt chars.

When you crack, it is incredibly fast because the work is already done.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Connelly [mailto:connellyd () gmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:25 AM
To: Jeffrey M. Miller CISSP
Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Password Audit tools

Internet Scanner does a good job of enumerating accounts on a Windows
Domain(using netbios and null sessions) but if you tried to brute
force/dictionary every account that it found the scan would take a
VERY long time to complete.  If you are trying to pw crack through a
service (ftp,telnet,http...), use hydra otherwise use LC or John the
Ripper.
BTW, Nessus also does a good job enumerating accounts, and its free ;)
Dan

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:10:29 -0600, Jeffrey M. Miller CISSP
<jmiller () acumeninfosec com> wrote:
I've used Internet Security Scanner from ISS and really like it's
ability to pull users from NT domains and test common passwords, such
as username=password, password=password, etc.

I've considered purchasing the consultant version of l0phtcrack LC5.

Has anyone used LC5 and can anyone compare it to ISS?  Also are there
any OpenSource tools that can do these sorts of checks?

Thanks

J_






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