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RE: Password Audits


From: "Rochford, Paul" <paul.rochford () hp com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:43:17 +0100

Remember once the password goes beyond 14 characters the LM and NTLM
hash is not stored. 

Good article on this:

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Protect-Weak-Authentication-Proto
cols-Passwords.html

Kind Regards,
Paul Rochford 


-----Original Message-----
From: tmanster [mailto:tmanster () gmail com] 
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:03 PM
To: Jair; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Password Audits


This might do the trick for you.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/john/

T

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:53:00 -0400, Jair <jairgerald () hotmail com> wrote:

Hi Fellows,

I am using LC5 tool for audit windows 2000 users passwords and look 
like it only work with 14 characters passwords or less, I know some 
users have some long passwords over 14 characters and LC5 doesn't show

me information about them.

do you guys know if is a tool who can break long passwords ?

Thanks for you help



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