From: Tony Stark (stark192@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 09 2006 - 13:46:56 EST
Hello Brett,
Fortunatly for this project we are only doing LM passwords, all on Windows
machines. Yeah, I'd hate to try this with salt, I could take a long vacation
while that ran..<g>
Thx for the info, I'll jump on the links and check them out.
Tony
>From: "Simpson, Brett" <Brett.Simpson@hsn.net>
>To: "Tony Stark" <stark192@hotmail.com>, <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
>Subject: RE: Rainbow Tables
>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 12:59:53 -0500
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Stark [mailto:stark192@hotmail.com]
> > Subject: Re: Rainbow Tables
> >
>
>Snip...
>
> > Reason for this...the idea is that if we take the current
> > list of passwords
> > create a pre-computed hash table the next time we audit we'd
> > run LC5 (till I
> > convense them otehrwise) and all but the passwords that
> > changed and new
> > accounts would get knocked out right away.
> >
> > Does anyone have a hint as to how I should do this? Is there
> > a way to take
> > the hashes and the cracked clear text and merge them into a table?
>
>http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/
>
>For non lan manager hashes this would require a tremendouse amount of
>disk space (tera to peta bytes). Every password can have a large number
>of salts (the exact number depends of the type of hash i.e. md5,
>sha-1,etc).
>
>So let's say you have a UNIX system using the older crypt then you would
>have 4096 salts that are possible per password. So for every clear text
>version of a password you would have to store 4096 different salts. I
>have an English dictionary I use with JtR so 411,563 words.. Then I use
>rules mode and that number jumps to 15,773,164 (171MB). Now times that
>by 4096 salts and you get 64,606,879,744 variations (700+ TB).
>
>For Windows if your looking at the lanman hashes (not nt hashes) then
>they only have one salt so it would be possible to generate a table on
>common words and variations for only a couple hundred megabytes.
>
>You should also read the teracrack article.
>
>http://security.sdsc.edu/publications/teracrack.pdf
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