Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:30:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net> To: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: lanman password question In-Reply-To: <19980310040006Z12600727-2532+12437@samba.anu.edu.au>
> Also note that for decryption purposes the power isn't 14, it is
> 7. The reason is that the two halves of the password (each 7
> characters) are encrypted separately and then just concatenated
> together. Very silly!
>
> It comes out somewhere like 35^7 if you take these two considerations
> into account. That's why it is attackable with brute force (see the
> L0pht code). With a bit of compression and smart encoding you could
> probably fit a complete inverse map on a large disk.
who wrote this algorithm? was it lee?
luke