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How long will it take to crack a 10-15 character winrar password? [closed]
Ok, long story short, I'm currious how long it would take an agency to crack a 10-15 character winrar password. The file names in the archive are also scrambled including a word at the start and ...
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How long it will take to crack a RAR password?
I wonder how long it will take to crack 16 character alphanumeric WinRAR password for a mini supercomputer. As far as I know graphic cards are preferred over CPUs to crack passwords nowadays. If we ...
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Why are GPUs so good at cracking passwords?
What is it about GPUs that lets them crack passwords so quickly?
It seems like the driving force behind adopting good key-derivation functions for passwords (bcrpyt, PBKDF2, scrypt) instead of ...
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Pointers for john the ripper rulesets
I've been pouring over the JtR ruleset documentation and making little progress. I understand how to use it to make various permutations from a given wordlist, that's fine. However, I'm trying to ...
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Password Protected Zip: if attacker had one file, can use it to decrypt all files?
Consider a folder containing the following files:
(file1.txt, file2.doc, file3.pdf) all zipped and password protected, if attacker had one of these file, can use it for decrypting all without knowing ...
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Cracking MS-CACHE v2 hashes using GPU
As most people here will know, Windows caches domain/AD credentials in a format known as MS-Cache v2. Obviously, these would be excellent passwords to gain during a penetration test when local access ...
