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-Jeff Steward

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Any idea how to calculate that?  Even assuming we just use a-z,A-Z, and
> 0-9, we have 62 characters, so is a 15 char rainbow table 62 times the size
> of a 14 char one? I’d assume there’s some relationship similar to that.
> Even if it’s just double size for each character you add, the tables are
> not going to be storable once you start getting to the size of good
> passphrases.****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:03 PM
>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
>  ** **
>
> No, sorry. I should’ve clarified that.****
>
> ** **
>
> But they are available for purchase (or you can generate them yourself –
> that’s not as ridiculously expensive in compute-time as it was even 5 years
> ago).****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:17 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> For longer than 14 characters?****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:34 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ve got a rainbow table set for all keyboard characters (US-standard
> keyboard). Sure, that leaves out a lot of ALT+<whatevers>, but getting a
> user to use those is unlikely.****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:47 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ve not seen rainbow tables that work for passwords longer than 14
> characters, and even that excludes a large chunk of the ASCII set.****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:53 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> Might be a little better but honestly, if I can dump your hashes its only
> a matter of time before they are cracked using rainbow tables. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Z****
>
> ** **
>
> Edward Ziots****
>
> CISSP, Security +, Network +****
>
> Security Engineer****
>
> Lifespan Organization****
>
> [email protected]****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* David Lum [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:51 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> I have no idea what you said. I’m guessing you’re saying a 26-character
> passphrase is no better than a 12-character password?****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Ziots, Edward [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:09 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> Dump hashes of the passwords/passphrases, run then through a rainbow
> table, game is still over. Either that or don’t even crack the hash, just
> pass the hash and game is still over.  Nice tool gsecdump gets a lot, and
> there are other tools that will allow you to pass the hash.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> Z****
>
> ** **
>
> Edward Ziots****
>
> CISSP, Security +, Network +****
>
> Security Engineer****
>
> Lifespan Organization****
>
> [email protected]****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* David Lum [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:01 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Passphrases vs. password****
>
> ** **
>
> My passphrases are properly formatted sentences. We use IM here internally
> a lot.****
>
> ** **
>
> On the plus side:****
>
> If I inadvertently type “Long passwords are stupid!” into the wrong IM
> window it’s not immediately obvious that the wrong window received the
> input, vs. say “$eptember01”****
>
> ** **
>
> The downside:****
>
> Some scanners scan-to-SMB will fail if the password is longer than 15
> characters. Dumb.****
>
> *David Lum*
> Systems Engineer // NWEATM
> Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764****
>
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