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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
Thanks. Wonder why they can't put a description on the GitHub page?
I remember the app but never knew how to pronounce it -- it sounded like (record-scratch)-Crack, or maybe Bill the Cat, in my head. Light? Loft? Lowpft?
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you're doing something neat with your Us but I, unfortunately, came of age after lots of the cool times were over. All the hackers got jobs in industry and it feels like if I poke anything that isn't hackthebox I'll either A. have the FBI up my ass immediately or worse, B. have created a record somewhere of having committed one felony or another that will appear at an appropriate time for someone else and inappropria…
You've surely heard about Tor, socks proxies, VPNs, SSH tunnels.
Nostalgia factor is kicking into high gear on this one, as I haven't thought of L0phtCrack since the early 2000s.
It's making me nostalgic for all of the old tools - what was another one, ``john''? Although that seems to have been modernised. https://www.openwall.com/john/
I went from John the Ripper to L0phtCrack to Hash Cat. Now I want a Quantum computer because for some type of passwords even running Hash Cat on a big GPU farm is too slow because of hashing algorithms.
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You've surely heard about Tor, socks proxies, VPNs, SSH tunnels.
But which ones are really setup by the NSA to get said evidence that will be inconvenient for him at some point in the future? (I suspect Tor, and at least a few of the commercial VPN providers)