Re: Password Brute Forcer

From: Ryan Russell (ryanat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 13:04:09 PST

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    On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Ian Lyte wrote:
    
    > What I was wondering was is there a password cracker that substitutes
    > numbers for letters?
    
    Sure, crack has done this for a long time:
    http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~crypto/
    
    >
    > As an example, we all know people do tend to use words as a password,
    > occasionally improving their strength with the use of numbers i.e.
    > password99. I also think that a lot of people may use p4ssw0rd.
    
    If you really want to do this with L0phtcrack, then it would be pretty
    easy to write a program that would take a dictionary file, and output a
    new (larger) dictionary with the number substitutions done.
    
    						Ryan
    
    
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