Re: cracking cisco passwords

[Jim Duncan <jnduncan () cisco com>]

Damiano Scrigni writes:
>  
> http://www.alcrypto.co.uk/cisco/
> http://www.ladysharrow.ndirect.co.uk/library/Exploits/router/ciscocrack.c
>
> seem to be pretty easy to crack cisco passwords...

Maybe for mode 7 passwords.  The poster was asking about mode 5
passwords, and they are significantly more difficult to crack.

        Jim


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