, 2006-02-22
Federico Biancuzzi interviews Solar Designer, creator of the popular John the Ripper password cracker. Solar Designer discusses what's new in version 1.7, the advantages of popular cryptographic hashes, the relative speed at which many passwords can now be cracked, and how one can choose strong passphrases (forget passwords) that are harder to break.
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Google offers many powerful features and advanced search capabilities that make it very helpful for finding certain kinds of information but this group (Google Truths) aim is to educate web administrators, security community and Internet users.
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