A Swiss university lecturer has applied and refined a 20 year old password cracking technique to enable him to crack alphanumeric Windows password hashes in a matter of seconds. The technique involves ...
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and enforcing that policy is useless if you authenticate and locally store easily cracked password files. By default, Windows NT, 2000, and XP locally store legacy LAN Manager (LM) password hashes ...