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."

Comments

Good old Symantec

[Anonymous Coward]

Putting the "no" in innovation, again.

Re:Am I missing something??

[fulldecent]

Please read:

Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Oï
Philippe Oechslin
http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/~oechslin/publications/crypto03.pdf

or any other paper in its references