This is really clever!

Instead of running l0phtcrack for days to crack
Windows NT password hashes, these people just computed
all the possible combinations for character based
passwords. And then made it available on-line. How
nice of them!

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/1523212&tid=93
http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/ntsecurity/index.php#0FEB224E21024B8C

The entire flat-file of hashes fits in 1 terabyte,
which is certainly affordable. And they say that they
may create a database of _all_ character and numeral
based passwords (~106 TB).

Anybody know of a quick way to find the password
hashes on an NT box? Or a small app for generating
NTLM password hashes to check if this works?

All of this reminds me of RMS's original plea years
ago for not using passwords at all for the computer
network he was using. Looks like we are coming full
circle... ;)

John


                
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