Security Basics: Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?

[Adriel Desautels <adriel () netragard com>]

Actually I might. I'll get back to you on that.

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Eric Snyder wrote:
> Adriel ,
>
> How are you checking / cracking longer, 15 character plus, passwords?
> The best table I have seen is 14 character.  Do you have a source for
> 15+ character tables that use every possible printable characters;
> commas, spaces, grave accents, etc.?
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Eric.
>
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> Cc: Vikas Singhal; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?
>
> Yep, and rainbow tables are your friend.
>
> Regards,
>         Adriel T. Desautels
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>
> Rob Thompson wrote:
> > Vikas Singhal wrote:
> > > Hi Friends,
> > > Nowaday, I am studying on the Topic - Cracking Windows password.
> > > There are lot of tools out there which can dump LM and NTLM hashes
> for
> > > you. But as far i know, you can't touch the SAM file when windows is
> > > running, so, how does these tools work.
> > > Is the sam dumped in-memory?
> > > Regards
> > > V
> > Whenever I've had to do that, I have copied the SAM off the box, while
> > the machine was running and then done the work offline.
> >
> > I haven't had to do it a lot, but a few times and it's worked each
> time.
> > Hope that this helps.