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L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

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Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

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> L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables.

- Wikipedia

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

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> L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables. - Wikipedia

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Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

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No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them. I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.

L0pht put hacking and infosec on the map for arguably hundreds of people. They were and still are incredibly talented.

I would say they were the first group that got many Windows sysadmins to start thinking about OS security.

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No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them. I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.

I was going to object to your "under 30" quip, then realized I haven't been under 30 for quite a while. Oops.

I'm in the same boat, and it's really amazing how quickly things change. I was explaining to a coworker the other day how much more optimistic we were in the 90s, and when he casually mentioned that he was born in 2000, I suddenly felt really old.

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them. I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.

> Not really even an interesting footnote in history. This just feels like you have an axe to grind.

Having a bias is not the same thing as being wrong

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

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No. They seem to have been doing a few puff PR pieces recently. Can’t imagine anyone under 30 knows or cares about them. I guess their main claim to fame was being the first “hacker” group to do PR moderately well and transition into decent careers. Not really even an interesting footnote in history.

L0pht put hacking and infosec on the map for arguably hundreds of people. They were and still are incredibly talented.

Indeed. I had the good fortune to work with DilDog before he co-founded Veracode. I count him in the top ten of talented co-workers across a three decade career.

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#18

> L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid attacks, and rainbow tables. - Wikipedia

Thanks. Wonder why they can't put a description on the GitHub page?

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#20
I wonder what the reasoning for open sourcing it now. And why not from the get go instead of decades later. Licence choices are obviously up to the authors. But at this point it is more a museum relic than anything practical
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