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Well the bonehead hashcat program is limited to 15 character passwords, so it can't possibly crack mine. The hashcat program software in general is powerful, t
by TwoBit 13y ago
Well the bonehead hashcat program is limited to 15 character passwords, so it can't possibly crack mine.
The hashcat program software in general is powerful, though pretty crappy from a design standpoint. The current version crashes if any input is not what it expects, and it has just about zero help for what it expects. Actually I can't even get it to work, as executing hashcat-lite.exe with arguments causes it to just immediately exit without doing anything nor printing any output.
- reeses 13y ago*Well the bonehead hashcat program is limited to 15 character passwords, so it can't possibly crack mine.* One of the main themes of the article is that the sites are the weak point, not necessarily the users. The first boo-boo is storing passwords in an easily discoverable format (plaintext, md5, sha1, etc.). Another massive annoyance is when a site has an insipid constraint on passwords. No longer than 8 chars because that's what they put in their db last century or based it on passwd, minimal symbols, and basically just alpha-numerics. That's why your password manager has the controls on length, number of symbols, digits, etc. It's not to "smarten up" your passwords but to dumb them down for sites that give no priority to security.