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Mulley, Nikhil wrote: | Hi All, | [Meant for Linux Hackers...Well I know all here belong to the same community ;)] | However , I have managed to get the htpasswd file of some other site.. | this htpasswd file has the fileds like.. | Username:Password | (which I guess has some DES encryption and as the salt does not seem to be start with $1$ which resembles hashing with MD5) | So , Question is how can I ask my John(the Ripper) to start cracking this file to give me the password... | | Any one any thoughts/ideas ? | | ~Nikhil. | °v° | /(_)\ | ^ ^ | While I do not see this being a good approach to the question, I do see reasonable (legal) uses for your question. I, however, will not say anything about how to use John the Ripper. It can be a good tool to use as log as there is a good legal reason.
As far as the password hashing with MD5, to the best of my knowledge there is no way to figure out what the password is without generating every possible combination and comparing the MD5 hash of both. The whole reason for using MD5 hashes is to keep from saving the password in ~ a decryptable form. To verify authenticity you compare the MD5 sum of a password given with the MD5 sum that was created when the password was created. Then you never sacrifice the password.
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Nathaniel Hall, GSEC Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
halln@xxxxxxx 417-447-7535
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