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As long as your country allows you to even own the tools...
Which countries don’t?
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/new_german_ha...
- https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__202c.html
However, it seems it is not about owning the tools, but rather about creating them.
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Congrats, how did you do it?
Combination of 401k growth, having a six figure income, cryptocurrency investments, and early investment in AMD and TSLA and a few side income streams.
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
I recall running this on a dual core Celron (BP6 dual socket motherboard) over-clocked back in the day to get 1Ghz `testing` power. Fun times.
L0phtCrack was featured in the Phrack Magazine (53) inside an article written by Aleph1 on attacking PPTP, one of the oldest VPN protocols [1]. Prior to that, Aleph1 has written arguably the most famous article in Phrack Magazine (49) to date [2]. [1] The Crumbling Tunnel: http://phrack.org/issues/53/12.html [2] Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit: http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html
Given the number of people, including myself, who consider reading that article a truly formative experiences, you might argue it's one of the most famous/influential articles in programming.
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I have been following programming and technology for decades and I had never heard of it. Every project should have a concise (one or two sentence) description in the GitHub README and the website's homepage. Even the most well-known tools.
I agree they should have a description in the readme, as a courtesy if nothing else. But L0phtCrack is a very well known tool. If you've never heard of it and have been following security stuff for decades, that's really on you.
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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)
Some recent news out of the commercial VPN universe... From a cryptographer professor at Johns Hopkins: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14493567426896896... Kape, an Israeli 'adware' company that renamed itself to distance itself from its prior history as an adware company, recently bought up ExpressVPN and several other services and rebranded itself as a VPN services company. Kape also bought VPN ranking…
> 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