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RE: Cisco Secret 5 and John Password Cracker


From: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:31:52 -0600

Even the secret 5 ones? All of the Normal Cisco Crackers that I have
seen only do the Type 7 level password. 

GetPass & Cain and Abel both do Type 7 level cracking as well.


-----Original Message-----
From: Pachulski, Keith [mailto:keithp () corp ptd net] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 8:02 AM
To: Unknown User; pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Cisco Secret 5 and John Password Cracker

Look for a program called tomas.exe aka Too Many Secrets - 
this one does work for the cisco passwords.

original> -----Original Message-----
original> From: Unknown User [mailto:9nkn0wn () gmail com]
original> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 9:27 AM
original> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
original> Subject: Cisco Secret 5 and John Password Cracker
original> 
original> 
original> Hi
original> 
original>  I have recovered some cisco passwords that are encrypted 
original> using the secret 5 format. They look like this
original> 
original>  $1$Wgqc$sbb8R/2rtOhc7t86J5axj.
original> 
original>  The question is can i simply plug this into a 
standard unix 
original> type shadow file format and use john to crack. I've 
tried this 
original> but I'm not convinced that John is actually 
working. Its also 
original> incrediblly slow.
original> Any other tools available to crack these types of passwords.
original> 
original>  Thanks
original> 


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