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Monthly Archives: July 2008

High availability for humans

Friday, July 11, 2008

I noticed a new link in my GMail account (I am using gmail for your domain), showing the sessions used to connect to an account and the last time since it had activity on that session.
Pretty neat, although I doubt a regular user will be able to make sense of any of that… In my [...]

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Step by step guide to create your own MSCASH hashes

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I wanted to test the relative strength of a password policy. I wanted to run a password cracking tool over different passwords, from a dictionary based password (like Banana42) to a random one (generated with Password Safe). Creating users setting passwords and running different password extraction tools was a lot of trouble.
I found a detailed [...]

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