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Anyone know of a good tool to test password strength?

I need a program that can basically attempt to crack weak passwords in our network. This is to satisfy and audit finding. I heard of something called LC4; anyone else heard of it?? It's supposed to be...

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Re: Anyone know of a good tool to test password strength?

Cain & Abelis a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary,...

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Re: Anyone know of a good tool to test password strength?

Do your users pick their own passwords? Depending on the network you should be able to set up password policies to enforce minimum length, complexity, etc.If I was an auditor I would rather see that...

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Re: Anyone know of a good tool to test password strength?

I agree with Limey that if you have good policies in place, you shouldn't have to make attempts with cracking tools.

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Re: Anyone know of a good tool to test password strength?

I guess I should have prefaced my response with something similar to what Limey and spiceuser have responded with. It is nearly always better to have documented policy and procedure in place, backed...

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Re: Anyone know of a good tool to test password strength?

Greetings.Yeah, what they all said. Policies should suffice. However, i have had executives and various business owners look me in the eye balls and say, "prove it," when i tell them how weak passwords...

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