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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:12:33 +0000
From: "jay rubin" <cjride@...mail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: windows passwords now don't work

>From: "thomas springer" <thomas.springer@...il.com>
>Reply-To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
>To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
>Subject: Re: [john-users] windows passwords now don't work
>Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:07:22 +0200
>
>caps-lock or numlock (especially on laptops!) on??
>and remember: while lanman-hashes are not case-sensitive (and
>therefore always cracked in UPPERCASE, your windows-password (stored
>also as ntlm-hash) IS case-sensitive.

First thing I checked.  I've done enough of that rookie mistake.  I even 
opened an editor to make sure which case I was in when typing.


>
>tom
>
>On 4/6/06, jay rubin <cjride@...mail.com> wrote:
> > I finally figured out how to use john so I wanted to perform a test and 
>see
> > if I couldn't create a more secure password.  When I went to change my
> > password I kept getting an error message that the "password entered was
> > incorrect".  So what better to do than rerun john and make sure what my
> > passwords were.  John came up with the same passwords that it had 
>cracked
> > before and which were what I thought they were.  Can anybody tell me 
>what's
> > going on?  I created another admin account before rebooting my system 
>just
> > to make sure I could still do some work.  On the reboot my old passwords
> > still did not work.
> >
> > -Jay
> >
> >
> >
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>[nach mir der synflood.]
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