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ZAYED UNIVERSITYMSIT

CIT-508-1-MASTERS

2010

Password Cracking

[Password Cracking Techniques]

Ali Alkaf

Talal Al Ismail

10/2/2011


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Project IdeaPasswords are used everywhere today, and in different things; when you buy

online you need to put your credit card password, if you want to login to your home

wireless network you need to put a username and password, you want to login to your

email you need a password, from this we conclude that most of people use password as

the first line of defense in different places. However, our goal is to explain password

cracking by testing and learning different techniques used to make password cracking

more difficult and what people should do to keep there passwords save. However, with

the huge development in technology sector password cracking increased and also the

methods of passwords encryption. This project will use different tools to crack

passwords and understand different ways to do it and protect people from being victims

of password cracking.

Project Scope

In this project we will use two different tools from back track John the Ripper,

and other tools for cracking zip and RAR archives, this tools are the most common tools

for password cracking John the Ripper is one of the most popular password

testing/breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into onepackage, auto detects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker. It can

be run against various encrypted password formats including several crypt password

hash types most commonly found on various UNIX flavors (based on DES, MD5, or

Blowfish), Kerberos AFS, and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hash. Additional modules

have extended its ability to include MD4-based password hashes and passwords stored

in LDAP, MySQL and others. Moreover, there are a lot of different tools for cracking

password in Back-Track we will chose one of them and learn about it then test it.

However, the challenges we think that we will face are the time to learn the tools and

most of thesetools websites are blocked so we need to look in different resources for

tutorials.


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Methodology

First, we will make research about the tools and how it works also we will look

for some online tutorials, after we get the basics we will download them and install

them in our machines. Moreover, we will experiment with tool see how it work the

advantage and disadvantages of the tool, also the benefits we gain form using this type

of tool in understanding the important of securing passwords.

The project will move throw different phases like:

y Making research about the tools and download themy I

nstall the tools and start experimenting with themy Testing the toolsy Report Findings

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