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Re: Password Cracking

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shiva Ramabadran)
Wed Oct 20 00:23:54 1993

To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Cc: goeringh@re.deere.com (Hope Goering), info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Oct 1993 21:05:40 EDT."
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 23:14:07 -0400
From: Shiva Ramabadran <ramabs2@rpi.edu>


 } 
 } Hope Goering says:
 } > Are there any programs available that will sweep through a 
 } > passwd file and a Kerberos database and attempt to crack
 } > users' passwords?
 } > 
 } > There are programs available to do this just with /etc/passwd
 } > files, but I'm not familiar with anything that tries to 
 } > crack Kerberos passwords.
 } > 
 } 
 } To my knowledge, "crack" doesn't handle kerberos passwords, but could
 } easily be modified to do so. 
 } 
 } Perry
 } 

This beast already exists. 

Check out the export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/crack.tar.Z

An excellent tool, it is. (Thanks Dan!)

-Shiva
-=-
UNIX Systems Programmer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180.
Phone: (518) 276 8733. Fax: (518) 276 2809. Internet: shiva@rpi.edu.

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