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Matasano Chargen: 16 Years Of Password Cracking

  • blog · 3 years ago
    Wow, things sure have come a long way. When I wrote PalmCrack (www.noncon.org) it managed 25 c/s on the Motorola Dragonball processor. Alec Muffett says that in 1992 when working on Crack, replacing crypt() with fcrypt() yielded 25 crypts/sec on a Sun 3/60.

    Passwords won't protect you. Your OS won't protect you (iMac hacked in less than 30 minutes). I guess the best defense is:

    (1) Keep the ankle biters at bay
    (2) Don't be a target of the determined

    Steve
    Steve Lodin | Homepage | 03.07.06 - 10:10 am | #