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| Subject: | Re: How many password cracking programs are there? |
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| Date: | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:53:49 -0700 |
There might be numerous password crackers, but the techniques they use are similar. In fact they can be divided into few categories:
1) Brute-force (offline/online) 2) Dictionary (offline/online) 3) Xieve (ignores non-sense combinations) 4) hybrid 5) rainbow tables 6) precomputation of hashes
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