RE: Password "security" - was"Passwords with Lan Manager (LM) under Windows" and "Whitespace in passwords"

> Regarding "Whitespace in passwords", and as some people
> already mentioned, modern password cracking software (both
> commercial and free) can find non-printable chars, so space
> or ALT-whatever are going to be found anyway.
> Rainbow tables now tend to include space, but I still haven't
> heard of anyone producing a table for 0x00-0xff
> (0x0000-0xffff if you use extended unicode chars ;-)
> Applications CAN be broken by using strange characters, so YMMV.


Can you provide a list of those that have that ability, I will gladly test
them.

The most popular ones cannot i.e. L0pht, Cain etc. See:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/312263


Dave




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