Re: Choosing secure passwords - Feedback solicited

From: C Colon (foobar@asia.com)
Date: 04/15/02 

From: foobar@asia.com (C Colon)
Date: 15 Apr 2002 05:58:06 -0700

chris@nospam.com wrote in message news:<7s8abus1pk61anu851s3865us8lar0j40h@4ax.com>...
> Of coursepacket sniffing is an easy way to capture NTLM hashed
> passwords without compromising the machine. There are ways to divert
> traffic on switch networks to accomplish this as well.

True - but by packet sniffing at any point in time - 1. You won't get
the comprehensive list of all users and 2. The password hash while
travelling would be different from the encryption used for the
password file itself (Correct me if I am wrong). Here, the discussion
was more focussed to brute forcing the password file itself

Regards
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