Newsgroups: alt.security From: aem@aber.ac.uk (Alec David Muffett) Subject: Crack - The password cracker v3.3c Message-ID: <1991Sep22.051602.13910@sparky.imd.sterling.com> Keywords: password cracking Sender: kent@sparky.imd.sterling.com (Kent Landfield) Organization: Computer Unit, Llandinam UCW References: Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1991 05:16:02 GMT This is Crack, v3.3c : A Sensible Password Cracker for Unix. Many improvements have been made, mostly to portability across many systems and architectures, bugfixes, and improvements to the dictionary preprocessor and fcrypt() algorithms, + password file feedback, extra network flexibility, and so on. Apology: Version 3.2b never made it to the public because of the major rewiring I had to do so that network-crack would utilise resources a bit more efficiently. Some person decided to release their own patches and call it v3.2b anyway... pity the patches cocked things up. Bugs which caused sporadic coredumping on Sun-3's have been solved (I certinly hope), as well as mistakes which prevented 'gcc' from compiling fcrypt() effectively, and the ENDIANITIS problem has been clarified in the configuration files (This stopped fcrypt() working on RS/6000s, HP's and several other bigendian platforms). As ever - start from the README and BUGS files and work on from there. - alec 'just another password cracker' muffett. (with apologies to Randal Schwartz...) ps: Quick plug: Anyone in the UK looking for a systems programmer from mid-november onwards? BSc Astronomy (UCL). 23 yrs old, 6'4", shaves at least weekly, doesn't smell too bad, red hair, jeans and T-shirt supplied, young but slightly flippant. Doesn't like London much. Experience in unix security, networking TCP/IP & X25, network software, unix internals, speed-critical programming, daemons, o/s development, user management, mail, news, oracle, multi user games design, systems administration, music, astronomy, art, reading, and decent malt whisky. This is assuming that my university don't want me anymore. Waaaaa! -- INET: aem@aber.ac.uk JANET: aem@uk.ac.aber BITNET: aem%aber@ukacrl UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber!aem ARPA: aem%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk SNAIL: Alec Muffett, Computer Unit, Llandinam UCW, Aberystwyth, UK, SY23 3DB -- Kent Landfield INTERNET: kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM Sterling Software, IMD UUCP: uunet!sparky!kent Phone: (402) 291-8300 FAX: (402) 291-4362 Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.