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• PyOTP - Python One Time Passwords.
• PyOTP implements the RFC2289 (previously RFC1938) standard for One-Time Passwords (OTP) in Python. ...
• The system provides authentication for system access (login) and other applications requiring authentication that is secure against passive attacks based on replaying captured reusable passwords. ...
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• Cracking Windows passwords in seconds .
• If your passwords consist of letters and numbers, beware. ...
• Swiss researchers released a paper on Tuesday outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break such codes to an average of 13. ...
• The method involves using large lookup tables to match encoded passwords to the original text entered by a person, thus speeding the calculations required to break the codes. ...
• The results highlight a fact about which many security researchers have worried: Microsoft's manner for encoding passwords has certain weaknesses that make such techniques particularly effective, Philippe Oechslin, a senior research assistant and lecturer at the Cryptography and Security Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), wrote in an e-mail to CNET News. ...
• "Windows passwords are not very good," he wrote. "The problem with Windows passwords is that they do not include any random information. ...
• He said his research has been more about creating efficient time-memory trade-offs, not about breaking Microsoft passwords. ...
• Microsoft passwords are just a nice example to demonstrate the theoretical results. ...
• Two methods of encryption Microsoft has used two encoding schemes, also known as hashing functions, to encrypt passwords. ... 1, 95, 98, Me and early NT systems to secure passwords that were used to connect to early Windows networks. ...
• The LANMan scheme has several weaknesses, including converting all characters to uppercase, splitting passwords into 7-byte chunks, and not using an additional random element known as "salt. ...
• That means that a password cracker can create a large lookup table and break passwords on any Windows computer. ...
• The inclusion of symbols other than alphanumeric characters adds complexity to the process of breaking passwords--and that means the code cracker needs more time or more memory or both. ...
• Oechslin, for example, has created a new version of his program using 20GB of lookup tables that can break passwords made of numbers, letters and 16 other characters in an average of 30 seconds for large batches of passwords. ...
• "To make things more complex, we could have generated a set of data half as big (10GB), which would (have broken) the same passwords faster, but we would have spent multiple times the amount of work calculating this data," he wrote. ...

• You can use these tools to dump passwords form your computer: .
• What sort of passwords are cracked ?.
• Our system is able to crack 99,9% of alphanumeric passwords (mixed case letters and numbers) in 5 seconds (average on 1000 passwords). We are also able to crack passwords built with 78 characters (mixed case letters, numbers and 16 others characters) in 30 seconds but there is no web interface to this cracker yet. ...
• LanManager passwords are desactivated on your computer.
• We crack passwords by chunks of 7 characters. ...
• Is there something special about windows passwords that makes them easier to crack?.
• The two ways of encrypting passwords on windows systems, the LanManager hash and the NThash, both lack the use of random information. ...
• We had to test our method with a real-world example, so we chose windows passwords. To our knowledge we are the first to have applied a time-memroy trade-off to cracking passwords, resulting in a cracker that does in seconds what the best commercial crackers do in hours. Although this sounds more spectacular, anybody could have used the original time-memory trade-off to implement a cracker that would crack passwords in minutes, if not in seconds. ...

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• Secure Passwords that can be easily Remembered .
• PassMaker is a web based program that creates passwords of user specified lengths which are easy to remember, pronounce and secure. The passwords can easily be remembered because they are composed of two or more pronounceable words joined by special characters. ...
• This password was 1 of 3,874,629,953 possible passwords (equvilent to a key length of 31 bits) that could have been created from the following parameters. ...
• This varies greatly, ranging from very short times if the passwords can be checked on the same system so rather long times for passwords that must be checked on another computer such as over the Internet. ...
• Passwords generated here with the default parameters of 2 words of length between 4 and 6 inclusive are approximately as secure as 8 characters randomly drawn from a set of 50. ...
• The possible passwords are calculated as follows where nw = the number of words within the length limits, wc = the number of words and ns = the number of separator characters: .
• Possible passwords = (nw ^ wc) * (ns ^ (wc - 1)) .
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• Are passwords passe?.
• Passwords have been part of computer operations for as long as most people can remember. But some security experts are voicing concerns about the security of passwords. ...
• Many companies figure that they have a level of security by obscurity with passwords because they figure, who is going to perform a brute force or dictionary attack -- two methods for figuring out passwords -- against them? .
• Organizations still cling to using passwords for a variety of reasons, including habit, bureaucracy, inertia and "institutional consent," said William Hugh Murray, executive consultant with TruSecure Corp. "I have been after the Department of Defense to get rid of passwords for years because they are really poor security," he said at the recent e-ProtectIT conference at Norwich University, in Northfield, Vt. ...
• Another reason why passwords are still so pervasive is concern over the alternatives. ...
• "Biometrics [by themselves] aren't good enough, but neither are passwords," Murray said. ...
• One of the major hassles with passwords is that they need to be fairly long (at least six or seven characters) and complex to be even remotely secure. ... And users tend to forget their new passwords. ...
• Perhaps the simplest alternative to passwords are SecurID tokens, which don't require a lot of investment to implement. ...
• Moving beyond just passwords is not a trivial affair. ...
• Sondra Schneider is presenting a session on life after passwords at 8 a. ...
• FEEDBACK: Are passwords becoming obsolete?.

• Users, Groups and Passwords.
• This tells pwconv not to modify this field because the passwords are kept in /etc/shadow. ...
• Why not change the permissions on /etc/passwd rather than creating a second file, /etc/shadow to store passwords? .
• The use of shadow passwords is fairly recent addition to Unix. Under older operating systems, such as SunOS, shadow passwords are not included as part of the standard distribution. ...
• In addition many systems support commands such as passwd that allow users to change their own passwords. ...

• Creating stronger passwords.
• Change your passwords. ...
• If someone stole your passwords, they could do the same thing online. ... Read on to learn how you can help protect your identity online by creating stronger passwords.
• Protecting your passwords.
• Hackers use software tools that rapidly assess thousands of likely passwords, looking for easy marks. Help protect your security by using unlikely or strong passwords, managing your password carefully, and monitoring your accounts.
• Here are some general guidelines to help you build better passwords:.
• Here are some guidelines to help you manage your passwords more safely:.
• Do use different passwords for different web sites.
• Do change your passwords at least every six months.
• Creating stronger passwords is just the beginning.
• Creating stronger passwords can help protect you against identity theft. ...

• PINs, secure passwords manager.
• PINs is a free feature-rich Windows program for safe and comfortable storing of any secure information like passwords, accounts, PINs etc. ...
• A powerful random passwords generator. ...
• Passwords masking. ...
• Copy logins and passwords to the Windows clipboard. ...
• Expired passwords tracking. ...
• At last count, I have 94 passwords, and since most of them are randomly-generated alpha numeric, upper and lower case, there is no way that I could remember any of them. ...
• The program tells clipboard extenders to ignore passwords being copied to the clipboard (it works with ClipMate and Yankee Clipper, possibly with other extenders too. ...
• Passwords generator - repaired crash on empty set of user characters. ...
• Corrected problem with SuperPasting passwords containing '{' characters. ...
• Expired passwords verification and handling. ...
• "Guidelines for the creation of cryptographically strong passwords", by Steven Michael. ...
• Passwords generator - a list of predefined popular templates. ...
• Passwords generator - when generating a number of passwords of the specified length, a new template is generated for every password. ...
• Possibility of predefining user password templates in Passwords. ...
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• Protect Your Passwords .
• Passwords are the keys to your corporate network, and they can fall into the wrong hands just as physical keys can. Passwords are vulnerable to theft because careless users often select easy-to-guess passwords and because of the ways in which operating systems (OSs) store, encode, and transmit passwords. To provide authentication services, an OS must store passwords so it can compare them with users' password entries. ... Authentication leaves open the possibility that an intruder can retrieve user passwords by accessing the OS's password file or eavesdropping on the network when a user logs on.
• How NT Stores Passwords .
• NT stores unencrypted user passwords in one location. ... SCM stores passwords for services' accounts in the Local Security Authority (LSA) Secrets area of the Registry. Hackers have found ways to collect clear-text passwords from LSA Secrets. ... (For information about applying the hotfix, see Microsoft Support Online article Q184017, "Administrators Can Display Contents of Service Account Passwords," at http://support. ...
• For every other function NT uses passwords for, the OS stores derivatives of passwords rather than clear-text passwords. ... All NT security APIs, commands, and dialogs authenticate user passwords by running the user's password entry through the one-way function and comparing the resulting hash with the hash in the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) Registry hive. ...
• The good news about this password-storage method is that even if a hacker obtains a copy of the SAM Registry hive, the hacker gets hashes, not passwords. The bad news about NT password protection is that, last year, the hacker community developed L0phtCrack, a tool that finds hashes on NT systems and derives their user passwords. The tool repeatedly performs NT's one-way encryption function on possible passwords, then compares the result of each encryption operation to the captured hash. ...
• L0phtCrack can derive difficult passwords from their hash within hours. I ran L0phtCrack on a 150MHz Pentium machine, and in one day, the tool decrypted three 14-character passwords made up of combinations of numbers and mixed-case letters. The tool decrypted simple passwords such as picnic in a few seconds. ...

• Need to recover lost or forgotten password for Microsoft Word document? Accent Word Password Recovery will help you to recover it! The program recovers passwords to open and passwords to modify for Microsoft Word documents (see supported passwords).
• To crack more cryptoproof passwords for documents in Microsoft Word 97 and next Word versions one may use three types of attack: dictionary attack, brute force, and brute force with mask (more information on terms; more information on effective methods of password recovery).
• unregistered copy doesn't recover passwords longer than 4 symbols. ...
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• Passwords and Security.
• ne very important part of security, and an oft-overlooked element, is passwords. To understand passwords, you need to know a little about human nature. ...
• If you let them pick passwords, they will pick sloppy and easy to guess ones; their phone number, wife or spouse or pets names, birthdays or something easy that they won't forget. ...
• The most common solution is of IT to create their own passwords that are harder or impossible to guess (or to remember), or to make rules about passwords like requiring mixed numbers and letters of 8 characters, and often they rotate or expire passwords regularly and require users not to use the same passwords in a row. ...
• When you rotate passwords, you make people remember and relearn passwords. ... Rules about password formats often limit the variety of passwords and make them easier to get. Length isn't as important in passwords as how a password is picked; a 4 character password can be far harder to get into than an 8 or 10 character one, depending on how the password is generated, so making it longer doesn't help much by itself; making it better is what counts. ...
• Most hacks aren't brute-forcing passwords; trying every possibility until they get in. ... Even trying all two digit passwords would take an impossibly long time. ...
• Any system that makes passwords too complex, as in any of the above, means that users now need to write down their passwords, and keep that list handy, so that they can get to them when they forget; which will be fairly regularly. So what the security people have done is made it a little harder for the clueless hackers to just randomly guess or brute force try all the passwords; but not much harder. And the cost is that you've made it much easier for anyone with a clue to find the passwords on or in that persons desk or notebook, in a file on their computer or PDA, or the ever popular post-it note next to or on their computers monitor. ...
• How to pick your passwords? Here are some things not to do:.
• If hackers do brute force attack (try all passwords), they are usually going to do it with a dictionary attack: that means trying every word in a dictionary first; since most passwords are an English word or name, and that reduces the possibilities by an order of magnitude or more. ...
• And some say mix numbers in or not, and that helps a little, but it doesn't matter as much as just picking a good password; so let's just focus on the real problem and pick better passwords.

• RoboForm: Free Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Generator: Fill Forms, Save Passwords, AutoFill, AutoLogin, AutoSave .
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• • AutoFill passwords to login form. ...
• • Save offline passwords & notes. ...
• • Generate Secure Random Passwords. ...
• • Encrypt passwords and personal info using 3-DES. ...
• • Put passwords on USB KeyChain for extra security. ...
• • Sync your passwords and safenotes to a Palm. ...
• • Backup & Restore, Print your passwords. ...
• "It Knows All Your Passwords (But Promises Not to Tell)". ...

• Passwords Base.
• Passwords Base.
• Description: Passwords Base is developed to remember all your passwords and to store them in the protected kind. All that is necessary for you to remember, it the unique password to your passwords base. ...
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• A Simple Scheme to Make Passwords Based on One-Way Functions Much Harder to Crack (1996)  (Make Corrections)  (6 citations).
• Abstract: We present a simple scheme that makes guessing passwords based on one-way functions 100 to 1000 times harder. ... Old passwords will still work and have the same security as before (one will not be able to distinguish them from new passwords); newly-entered passwords will become much more secure. ...
• Abadi, Lomas, and Needham recently independently proposed a scheme for strengthening passwords which is very similar to Manber s.
• 4:   Strengthening Passwords - Abadi, Lomas, Needham (1997)   (Correct).
• 4:   The Design and Analysis of Graphical Passwords - Jermyn, Mayer, Monrose. ...
• A simple scheme to make passwords based on one-way functions much harder to crack. ...
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• cPWD (Change Passwords).
• A powerful tool that automates changing passwords for local accounts on NT/2000/XP/2000 systems participating in the domain.   Dynamically generate and apply random passwords. ...
• Passwords are the single most vulnerable part of any computer system. ...
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• Tuesday, 21 May, 2002, 08:23 GMT 09:23 UK Turning pictures into passwords.
• Are the days of typing passwords numbered?.
• As we become ever more reliant on computers, remembering your passwords or coming up with one obscure enough to be secure can be a huge headache. ...
• Smart passwords .
• "People don't remember passwords but they are good at remembering faces," he said. ...
• Instead a smart card system, in which users simply swipe a card at a reader attached to the computer, could be the way passwords go in future. ...
• However, experts still see potential uses for picture passwords. ...
• Chief Technology Officer with anti-virus firm Cryptic Software, Dave Duke, believes picture-based passwords could play a part in everyday life, such as at ATM machines. ...
• He thinks the next stage for passwords will lie in identifying users by their fingerprints. ...
• The advantage of passwords is that you are completely reliant on yourself .
• "The advantage of passwords is that you are completely reliant on yourself," he said. ...
• Free software is available on the internet to store passwords, though you still have to remember the password to open the programme. ...
• Handheld computers can also be encrypted to store all passwords. ...
• You can hear more about picture passwords on the BBC World Service programme Go Digital. ...

• While well-chosen passwords could take years--if not decades--of computer time to crack, it took the program only an hour to decipher 30 percent of the passwords for the nearly 10,000 accounts listed in the file. ...
• "Just about every company that we have gone into, even large multinationals, has a high percentage of accounts with easily (cracked) passwords," said Greg Shipley, director of consulting for Neohapsis. "We have yet to see a company whose employees don't pick bad passwords. ...
• Fortune 100 corporations, small firms and even Internet service providers with strong security have an Achilles heel: users who pick easily guessable passwords. ... Such feeble attempts at deception are no match for today's computers, which are capable of trying millions of word variations per second and often can guess a good number of passwords in less than a minute. ...
• Bad passwords don't necessarily make it easier to break in to a company's network, but for hackers able to gain access to a corporate computer by other means, they're a treasure trove. Passwords discovered on one server will frequently open the way to other servers, and with the digital keys to a large fraction of the accounts on the network, an intruder can wander about with impunity and with the appearance of being a legitimate user. ...
• That's why network attackers grab passwords as soon as they can. ... The 1i0n worm, which spread among Linux servers in early 2001, grabbed password files, and the SirCam virus, in some cases, could send off the systems passwords as well. ...
• In the pre-Internet Age of 1979, when storage was measured in the number of bits that could fit on a foot of magnetic tape, a seminal paper on password security found that a third of users' passwords could be broken in less than five minutes. ...
• Yet the study found that users almost invariably chose bad passwords, leading to shortcuts for anyone attacking the security of the system. ...
• Of nearly 3,300 passwords examined, the paper's authors, Ken Thompson and Robert Morris Sr. ... In total, nearly half the passwords could be found in a search lasting less than six hours. ...
• 6 quadrillion different eight-character passwords using the 95 printable ASCII characters. ...
• In fact, operating systems have evolved in the past two decades to increase the security surrounding passwords. ...
• Now, operating systems typically allow only system administrators access to read the encrypted passwords, forcing hackers to get administrator rights on the system before they can grab the file. In addition, "three strikes" login rules have become common, locking out users who fail to provide the correct passwords in the first few attempts. ...

• 20 August 2003 Passwords are evil and expensive Says a survey commissioned by the company with the solution. ...
• Some interesting facts about people's use of passwords have emerged from a survey of over 3,000 IT professionals and business execs carried out in the US. ...
• Just under a quarter have eight or more different names and passwords to access different parts of their computer system. ...
• Nine percent of people always write their passwords down. ...
• Just under a quarter of companies insist passwords are changed seven times a year or more. ...
• And 37 per cent insist on passwords of eight characters or more for the same reason. ...
• Which rather inevitably leads us to the issue of forgetting passwords. While just under half claim they have never forgotten their passwords, that means over half of employees have. ... But two per cent of people admit to being sysadmins' favourite people, having forgotten their passwords eight or more times. ...
• Usernames and passwords are just a part of using computer systems. ...
• Except, of course, giving people usernames and passwords is extremely cheap and effective and built into most computer networks, and running a key card system across the whole network is extremely expensive and time-consuming - which is why only companies with hugely sensitive data bother to do it at the moment. ...
• We're all agreed that passwords are a nightmare and potential security risk. ... Lynch, "the cost of managing passwords estimated to be from $75 to $150 per user, per year which doesn't count lost productivity due to downtime as the user waits to access an application. ...

• Manage your passwords with ease - keep your personal account information private, safe, and secure!.
• Passwords, PINs, combinations, credit card numbers - what's on your computer that you need to keep private, safe, and secure? Passphrase Keeper makes it easy to organize and protect your passwords and other personal account information. ... And Passphrase Keeper can run entirely from USB flash drives - your passwords go where you go! .
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• I have about 45 different passwords. ...
• It avoids me having to try and remember all the different passwords and usernames and logons and what-have-you that we need these days, while keeping the stuff secure. And it'll even generate passwords for me. ...

• Passwords are the weakest link.
• Special Report: Despite all the warnings about the need for tight security, passwords that are easily guessed are still the biggest vulnerability for networks around the world.
• While well-chosen passwords could take years -- if not decades -- of computer time to crack, it took the program only an hour to decipher 30 percent of the passwords for the nearly 10,000 accounts listed in the file. ...
• "Just about every company that we have gone into, even large multinationals, has a high percentage of accounts with easily (cracked) passwords," said Greg Shipley, director of consulting for Neohapsis. "We have yet to see a company whose employees don't pick bad passwords. ...
• Fortune 100 corporations, small firms and even Internet service providers with strong security have an Achilles heel: users who pick easily guessable passwords. ... Such feeble attempts at deception are no match for today's computers, which are capable of trying millions of word variations per second and often can guess a good number of passwords in less than a minute. ...
• Bad passwords don't necessarily make it easier to break in to a company's network, but for hackers able to gain access to a corporate computer by other means, they're a treasure trove. Passwords discovered on one server will frequently open the way to other servers, and with the digital keys to a large fraction of the accounts on the network, an intruder can wander about with impunity and with the appearance of being a legitimate user. ...
• That's why network attackers grab passwords as soon as they can. ... The 1i0n worm, which spread among Linux servers in early 2001, grabbed password files, and the SirCam virus, in some cases, could send off the systems passwords as well. ...
• In the pre-Internet Age of 1979, when storage was measured in the number of bits that could fit on a foot of magnetic tape, a seminal paper on password security found that a third of users' passwords could be broken in less than five minutes. ...
• Yet the study found that users almost invariably chose bad passwords, leading to shortcuts for anyone attacking the security of the system. ...
• Of nearly 3,300 passwords examined, the paper's authors, Ken Thompson and Robert Morris Sr, found about 17 percent consisted of three characters or less, nearly 15 percent had four characters that were a letter or a digit, and another 15 percent appeared in one of the dictionaries available at the time. In total, nearly half the passwords could be found in a search lasting less than six hours. ...
• 6 quadrillion different eight-character passwords using the 95 printable ASCII characters. ...

• DocumentationIndex | Passwords >> Now look at the index again; http://www. ... com/wiki/PmWiki/DocumentationIndex Notice WikiGroup is in between WikiStructures and Passwords? Killer. ...

• 1 MySQL Usernames and Passwords.
• 1 MySQL Usernames and Passwords .
• 6 Assigning Account Passwords .
• 1 MySQL Usernames and Passwords.
• There are several distinctions between the way usernames and passwords are used by MySQL and the way they are used by your operating system: .
• Because this means that anyone can attempt to connect to the server using any username, you can't make a database secure in any way unless all MySQL accounts have passwords. ...
• MySQL passwords have nothing to do with passwords for logging in to your operating system. ...
• MySQL encrypts passwords using its own algorithm. ... (In earlier versions, even though passwords are stored in encrypted form in the user table, knowledge of the encrypted password value could be used to connect to the MySQL server!) .

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• Where to Change Your Passwords.
• CITES > passwords > changes .
• You can change many of your computing passwords using the web applications listed in the table below. ...
• Web Sites to Change Your Passwords.
• If your department or unit has a password registrar (that is, someone authorized to set or reset passwords), you may contact that person for assistance. ...

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