chick3nman

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1. 1.▲
   by chick3nman 3y ago

   Mode 2000 is not a "real" mode and shouldn't be considered in terms of password security. It's just an empty kernel we use for producing candidates on stdout.
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   by chick3nman 4y ago

   LM is still this way, the algorithm hasn't changed, it's just not often used/stored except in the case of quite old legacy systems. NT hashes, commonly referred to as NTLM hashes, are indeed not length restricted and do not b
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   by chick3nman 4y ago

   The math says 12+ if randomly generated by something like a password manager and including uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. 95^12 is too big for pretty much anyone to crack for a very long time, if ever. There is a small caveat t
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   by chick3nman 6y ago

   They base their math on SHA256, which is not a hash function anyone should be using for password hashing, being cracked by bitcoin ASICs, which are completely irrelevant to hash cracking because they are incapable of doing the required math