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By the way are there any other security implications of cracking LM hash than recovery of passwords from already compromised machine?
by dfox 16y ago
By the way are there any other security implications of cracking LM hash than recovery of passwords from already compromised machine?
- iuguy 16y agoLM is a particularly poor algorithm for passwords. There's a fair bit of info here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reverse_Engineering/Cracking_Windows_XP_Passwords http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Reverse_Engineering/Cracking_Wi... It's disabled by default on Vista and 7 (AFAIK, it was on my Windows 7 build, and I don't think that was me) but is enabled by default on Windows XP. You can find out how to disable it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299656 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299656