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I thought that if a PDF is password encrypted, it is at least provides some kind of safety. However I received today an encrypted PDF, and was told the password. When I opened the document with my local PDF reader, I was expected to enter … Continue reading Why are PDF passwords so easy to break?
im running a password attack on myself using john the ripper, for some reason it ends up proceeding with (incremental:ASCII) ive seen that apparently this wont terminate (i think that means come back with a passwrd) because it has to many … Continue reading how to set a low passwrd limit or make incremental mode on john the ripper use a small charset [closed]
I have been researching and looking into rainbow tables for quite some time now and have come to a dead end regarding starting points and endpoints in rainbow tables. I am confused. Based on the official wikipedia article of rainbow tables… Continue reading Rainbow Tables – Starting points and Endpoints
I’ve been looking at entropy calculations for passphrases, in the context of estimating how long an attacker would take to guess that passphrase.
On the way, I passed through the Wikipedia article on passphrases. This starts from the premi… Continue reading Passphrase entropy calculation, Wikipedia version
Building on the theme presented in this previous question, does Window’s current PIN input userflow break standard password security practices?
Behavior: When the user inputs the correct number of digits in the PIN, Windows displays an err… Continue reading Does Windows 11 PIN Behavior Break Password Security Conventions?
Lets assume I am building a pastebin-like web app: users can upload text notes and share them. Users should be able to password-protect notes. Whenever viewing such a note, other users must first provide the correct password to be able to … Continue reading Password checks in backend vs. password encrypted data sent to frontend?
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I’m working on an authentication system that uses passwords. I would like to follow modern NIST best practices with regards to password strength.
However, I also considered it may be nice to store some meta-data about the password, such as… Continue reading Storing password strength information along with password
When I run the command
hydra -l sergeeva_kori -P /home/kali/Desktop/rockyousplit/file00 instagram.com http-get
to crack my own instagram account, it tries some of the passwords and says
1 of 1 target successfully completed, 16 valid pass… Continue reading hydra only tries 16 of the passwords in the txt file [closed]
I’ve recently downloaded a zip file from the hack the box website for cracking it open and I’ve used ida pro for binary search for the password function but that didn’t help, could one of you give me some advice that how could I open that … Continue reading How do i crack open the password protected zip file thats not been had a password configured inside it? [closed]