← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Happy Hacker
Thread ID: 8380 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-07-23
2003-07-23 19:07 | User Profile
With Windows NT/XP, Microsoft introduced passwords. These passwords allow access to Windows NTFS encrypted files. Windows stores the passwords as hashes so the evil man "can't" look at the hard drive and see what your password is. Windows cannot convert hashes to passwords, it can only convert passwords to hashes to check if the password is correct. Ideally, to find a password from a hash, it would take a lot of brute force (a big computer a very long time).
Now, there's a website that that will find passwords for you, in only a few seconds:
[url=http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/]http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/[/url]
Note, the method used by this cracker will not work with Linux because Linux has a random value in its password hashes. Microsoft is predictable. The cracker at this website does have a few weaknesses, but don't count on exploiting those temporary weaknesses to find a secure password.
To be secure, don't just encrypt (and use better encryption that Windows provides), also hide your data.