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Gold at the end of rainbow cracking?
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-11-09

A trio of entrepreneurial hackers hope to do for the business of password cracking what Google did for search and, in the process, may remove the last vestiges of security from many password systems.

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Re: Gold at the end of rainbow cracking? 2005-11-14
Anonymous
There are a variety of ways to get the hashes.

Eg.

Lanman network authentication traffic (easier

with hubs than switches, but still doable with switches).

Websites that use NTML authentication and not HTTPS. There will be a "Authorization" head that

will provide hashes.

etc.

So yes ...

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