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Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:06:07 +0200
From: Guillaume Arcas <guillaume.arcas@...e.fr>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: JtR & NTLMv2 passwords

Selon Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:

> This question itself is confusing.
>
> My (limited) understanding is that NTLMv2 is a revision of the NTLM
> authentication protocol as described, for example, here:
>
> 	http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html
>
> However, even when NTLMv2 is in use, the underlying password hashes
> that are stored on Windows systems are plain NTLM, not NTLMv2 (there's
> no such thing as an NTLMv2 password hash; instead, there are NTLMv2
> challenge responses).
>
> JtR supports LM and NTLM hashes (the latter with the contributed patch)
> that are stored on Windows systems.

Thanks, that exactly what I wanted to know/understand more clearly.

Regards,

Guillaume Arcas - [http://yom.retiaire.org]
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