Common password encryption formats used by programs such as Microsoft’s LAN Manager have, since the mid-1990s, been vulnerable to brute force attacks like the infamous l0phtcrack. A brute force attack ...

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I just had to download the file and test it to convince myself you weren't kidding. Yup it's there, in "flagged as cracked" mode. (Substituting 5 zeros doesn't definitively mean it actually was ...