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Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#91
post #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?

I envy you for your age... There was a time when everyone and their dog knew what L0phtCrack was.

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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)

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#97
post #40

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/

And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#98

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.

Bad news is: a quantum computer will not crack hashes faster.

Re: L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

#99
post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

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 websites and juiced the rankings (into positions #1 and #2) for the VPN companies that it just bought: https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn... I suspect that Kape is probably a CryptoAG repeat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG - and is doing double duty for the US IC along with the Israelis, but it could be just a pure Israeli shop too.
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