Hackers Beware

All Passwords Can Be Cracked (NT Just Makes It Easier)

As previously mentioned, all passwords can be cracked from a brute force perspective; the question is: How long does it take? The goal with encryption is to make the time needed to perform a brute force attack on a password so long that it is unfeasible for someone to attempt to crack it. Encryption can also make the time it takes to perform a brute force attack so long that the value of the information expires before the attack is complete. The method Microsoft chose to implement passwords on NT enables a perpetrator to crack passwords at a faster rate than on other systems, for example, UNIX.

LAN Manager Hashes

NT has two major design flaws in its encryption that allows someone to crack ...