Penetration Testing: Re: Cisco Secret 5 and John Password Cracker

["Francisco Pecorella" <fpecor () cantv net>]

Hi,

You can use Cain in order to crack Cisco passwords. It is a free tool for 
Windows that you can download from http://www.oxid.it.
--
Regards,
FP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Unknown User" <9nkn0wn () gmail com>
To: <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:26 AM
Subject: Cisco Secret 5 and John Password Cracker


> Hi
>
> I have recovered some cisco passwords that are encrypted using the
> secret 5 format. They look like this
>
> $1$Wgqc$sbb8R/2rtOhc7t86J5axj.
>
> The question is can i simply plug this into a standard unix type
> shadow file format and use john to crack. I've tried this but I'm not
> convinced that John is actually working. Its also incrediblly slow.
> Any other tools available to crack these types of passwords.
>
> Thanks

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