RE: Whitespace in passwords

Craig,

But less than 50% with special characters and 0% with the extended ASCII.

As with almost all the "crackers" a 1 character extended ASCII is still safe.

Dave



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Wright [mailto:cwright@bdosyd.com.au]
> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 05:12
> To: compuwar@gmail.com; Peter Parker
> Cc: Anders Thulin; bryan allott; pen-test@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Whitespace in passwords
>
> Hi
>
> If you think than spaces make you safe...
>
> Get a clue
> http://www.rainbowcrack.com/rainbowtables.php?PHPSESSID=cb4c9a
> 8bf9b885e07c3d0b02242a9a9c
>
> NTLM has a 80.19% crack rate and this is growing
>
> Wait a few weeks and this will increase.
>
> Craig
>
>       >
>       > Since _most_ of the precomputed tables available for
> rainbow crack are
>       > generally not one generated with whitespaces so I
> started using it
>       > regularly in my passwords :D



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