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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:07:22 +0200
From: "thomas springer" <thomas.springer@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: windows passwords now don't work

caps-lock or numlock (especially on laptops!) on??
and remember: while lanman-hashes are not case-sensitive (and
therefore always cracked in UPPERCASE, your windows-password (stored
also as ntlm-hash) IS case-sensitive.

tom

On 4/6/06, jay rubin <cjride@...mail.com> wrote:
> I finally figured out how to use john so I wanted to perform a test and see
> if I couldn't create a more secure password.  When I went to change my
> password I kept getting an error message that the "password entered was
> incorrect".  So what better to do than rerun john and make sure what my
> passwords were.  John came up with the same passwords that it had cracked
> before and which were what I thought they were.  Can anybody tell me what's
> going on?  I created another admin account before rebooting my system just
> to make sure I could still do some work.  On the reboot my old passwords
> still did not work.
>
> -Jay
>
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