RE: Cisco type 5 password decrypter

From: Logan, Harold (loganh@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 13:16:43 GMT-3


   
You'll have to do some hunting for it, but there's a program called Too Many Se
crets that will run a dicitionary and/or brute force against an MD5 hash. I DL'
ed it a while back off of securityfocus.com, but it looks like their search eng
ine isn't working right now.

hth,
Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Przemyslaw Karwasiecki [mailto:karwas@ifxcorp.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 11:35 AM
> To: Gary Gerofsky
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Cisco type 5 password decrypter
>
>
> This is MD5, so as far I know (and NSA wants us to believe :-),
> the only way to decrypt such passwords, would be "brute force"
> method of generating (or using huge dictionary) of all possible
> passwords, finding MD5 hash for them, and then comparing result
> with cisco type 5 encrypted password in question.....
>
> Przemek
>
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 08:48, Gary Gerofsky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there a type 5 password decrypter anywhere?
> >



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