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L0phtCrack (v6) Rises Again
FyreWyr writes "L0phtCrack — now 12 years old — used to be a security 'tool of choice' for black hats, pen-testers, and security auditors alike — that is, until it was sold by L0pht to @stake, then Symantec, to be released and subsequently dropped as LC 5. As an IT security consultant, I used this tool to regularly expose vulnerabilities or recover data when there were few other options available. Eventually, I let it go as tech evolved away. Now, after being returned to its original developers, version 6 was released this week with fresh features: support for 64-bit multiprocessors, (current) Unix and Windows operating systems, and a number of other features, including enhanced handling of NTLM password hashes and support for rainbow tables. Interested parties, especially consultants, will find this shiny new version sports a hefty price tag. It raises doubts in my mind whether it can effectively compete with open source alternatives that go by similar names, but as I found earlier versions so useful, its re-emergence seems worth the mention."
Let's face it: Anything that symantec touches turns into worthless and junk.
Symantec is like the Anti-Midas of technology.
They touched Norton and poof, a great tool was turned into the worst nightmare of all times.
Now they are releasing the ultimate hackers' tool under their umbrella.
If i was anything like ParMaster, i would run as fast as i could and as far as away from it.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Sigh. Do you...do... IT? It seems like a "cracker tool" to you? What the hell are you, the FBI raiding Steve Jackson games 15 years ago because you're too inept to understand the difference between a concept and using it criminally?
You understand that even tools put to ill use by criminals have legitimate purposes right? Or are you in the ban sporks because they can be used in spork crimes camp? </flame> You deserved that.
L0phtcrack--cracks--passwords. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. Valid reasons include:
* lack of backups and a need to recover an existing password
* testing employee passwords for compliance with policy and strength requirements with authorization
* being paid to pen-test a system
* Just freakin' wanting to run it at home to see how fast such tools 'really work'
* Discovering passwords used on a compromised system (it may help reveal passwords used in encrypted files with naive rootkits)
* General Proof of concept against poor password implementations--early versions of l0phcrack hit some systems a lot faster than others as I recall
Can we stop with this namby crap that the tool is somehow used and written by 'bad people' is 'bad' itself?
To be fair, Midas' touch didn't really work out too well either...
Then do it.. and offer it for free.
Fact: Everything I say is fiction.
This is not what you think it is. What they mean by that term is they support rainbow tables. This is a time-memory trade-off that is very useful to crack non-salted hashes like Windows's standard NTLM hashes.
Dude, seriously. Its nice and all that you like to brag about multiple languages. Good for you.
But do you really know a language if you cannot communicate effectively with it?
Case in point, your post that I'm responding to.
It's fairly badly broken English. I've read worse, but its not good.
For example, how do you get 'too sticked to grammer', and what the hell does that mean? Is it some kind of dom/sub foreplay?
What is a 'juridical' document? Sounds kinky.
And I dont even have a clue what this is supposed to mean:
... when people try to teach grammar not by the error but by playing smarties.
Now there are alot of people who arent native english speakers here on /. And generally they only get minor grief, and only from idiots. You should have ignored the idiots. But oh no, you had to go get arrogant about it, and blame it on how you're so smart you are reading /. simultaneously in six languages including binary.
Bottom line, if you want to be able to be understood, and engage in conversation with people, then slow down a bit and at least try to make your posts intelligible. The couple of your posts I've read on this story are nearly incomprehensible. Strangely enough, the most clear you've been was in your bragging about how many languages you know, so that tells me you can speak clearly in English when you want to.