Hoohah, Cracking Your Passwords Has Never Been Easier
Passphrases and mangling are pointless when it comes to securing your passwords.
Ars Technica recently detailed the methods used by researchers for cracking passwords, easier than you might think.
Ars’ IT security editor, Dan Goodwin, spoke to password security researcher Kevin Young, who last year worked on decoding cryptographically protected password data leaked after attacks on the intelligence firm Sratfor. Young was able to crack about 60% of the password hashes before literally running out of words.
Fellow researcher, Josh Dustin, teamed up with Young, and as their sources expanded they also realized it was a mistake to use techniques that made sense to computers and not humans.
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