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RE: Whitespace in passwords
From: "dave kleiman" <dave () isecureu com>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:49:24 -0400
Craig, But less than 50% with special characters and 0% with the extended ASCII. As with almost all the "crackers" a 1 character extended ASCII is still safe. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Craig Wright [mailto:cwright () bdosyd com au] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 05:12 To: compuwar () gmail com; Peter Parker Cc: Anders Thulin; bryan allott; pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Whitespace in passwords Hi If you think than spaces make you safe... Get a clue http://www.rainbowcrack.com/rainbowtables.php?PHPSESSID=cb4c9a 8bf9b885e07c3d0b02242a9a9c NTLM has a 80.19% crack rate and this is growing Wait a few weeks and this will increase. Craig > > Since _most_ of the precomputed tables available for rainbow crack are > generally not one generated with whitespaces so I started using it > regularly in my passwords :D
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Current thread:
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Anders Thulin (Sep 07)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Peter Parker (Sep 11)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Paul Robertson (Sep 16)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords R. DuFresne (Sep 19)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Paul Robertson (Sep 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Andrew Meyers (Sep 08)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Steve.Cummings (Sep 11)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords dave kleiman (Sep 12)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Tim (Sep 14)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords dave kleiman (Sep 12)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Craig Wright (Sep 14)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Craig Wright (Sep 18)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords dave kleiman (Sep 19)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Stephen J. Smoogen (Sep 19)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Craig Wright (Sep 19)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Craig Wright (Sep 19)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords dave kleiman (Sep 19)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Bryan McAninch (Sep 19)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Tim (Sep 19)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Craig Wright (Sep 20)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Tim (Sep 20)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Craig Wright (Sep 20)
- Re: Whitespace in passwords Steve.Cummings (Sep 21)
(Thread continues...)
- RE: Whitespace in passwords Peter Parker (Sep 11)