Thursday, March 24, 2005

SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities - The Experts Consensus

SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities - The Experts Consensus: "The weakness of LM hashes derives from the following:

* Passwords are truncated to 14 characters.
* Passwords are padded with spaces to become 14 characters.
* Passwords are converted to all upper case characters.
* Passwords are split into two seven character pieces."

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