PHD hashrunner 2013
#2
"Since there are no such hints in the reality."

I agree with what you wrote, except that part Atom. In real life there is a *ton* of hints, very many of which has never been part of any password cracking contest.

Personally I would *love* to see a password cracking contest where one or more targets was assumed secret/classified information, where we start out with a "stolen" disk image, perhaps protected by FDE. To make things simpler, there wouldn't be much inside; a Windows 7 installation, but we would have to retrieve OS hashes and crack them. Now our "target user" has password protected 7zip. pdf, word, excel & powerpoint files in various versions stored in there, as well as user/pass for a webmail service, perhaps some wlans etc.

Cracking those will take us further on to a protected wlan, maybe a vpn service, and the ultimate goal: "secret documents" about the swedish government putting too much salt into their export meatballs.

The entire path will be filled with hints; a fake identity, maybe many, could be created, where pictures, names, school, education, sex, work position etc would all be hints about the passwords.

Perhaps not exactly a password cracking contest as we know them, but still.... imho very interesting thing to try out.

Hm... maybe I should create one such myself. :-)


Messages In This Thread
PHD hashrunner 2013 - by atom - 05-27-2013, 12:34 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by thorsheim - 05-27-2013, 12:59 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by Itinsecurity - 05-27-2013, 02:00 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by Sc00bz - 05-27-2013, 02:13 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by KT819GM - 05-27-2013, 03:07 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by halfie - 05-28-2013, 09:19 AM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by plan2000 - 05-27-2013, 04:04 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by epixoip - 05-27-2013, 05:20 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by Kuci - 05-27-2013, 07:10 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by K9 - 05-27-2013, 10:46 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by hashrunner - 05-28-2013, 10:22 AM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by mastercracker - 05-28-2013, 06:29 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by epixoip - 05-28-2013, 06:35 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by mastercracker - 05-28-2013, 07:29 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by atom - 05-28-2013, 08:34 PM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by Rolf - 05-29-2013, 01:11 AM
RE: PHD hashrunner 2013 - by epixoip - 05-29-2013, 02:07 AM