Google Authenticator surely is a cute thing. But my current solution isn’t really matching my taste: one token for every app which makes up a total of 20 token for my daily use – about 19 token too much if you’d ask me. A solution could be a Radius server, having all the users authenticated using a PAM […]
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Google-Authenticator and SSH
Looking at the current bugs and problems with passwords and authentification, everything is insecure – at least in theory. Believe me, as a sysadmin I have to say, “that sucks”. So I decided to choose “Plan G” which is the Google-Authenticator, a software token to extend our passwords by a new 6 digits number, pretty much like the […]
Password recovery on a Cisco 1600
While cleaning up my mess here, I found an old Cisco device, an old 1600 series router which I wanted to inspect before considering to throw it away. After some network magic I found the old IP I used but didn’t get over the password prompt to sneak around in the configs. My mood dropped instantly as I […]
Cracking passwords – the end
This is now the official end on cracking generated passwords here. After running for 77 days and 3 hours not even a single password was cracked. So this is the last status report: guesses: 0 time: 77:03:40:35 c/s: 971 trying: 055ud And that’s all folks. Hope you’ve enjoyed the experiment.
Cracking passwords – status report
Fifty days have passed since John The Ripper started cracking on the password file. As you can see, not even one password was guessed by now: guesses: 0 time: 50:06:35:40 c/s: 972 trying: ns4k7y Regarding my password policy, which is changing my passwords every month, our attacker would have lost already. I’ll proceed with the cracking for a […]
Cracking passwords – status report
You remember that I have tried to crack some random passwords using John The Ripper, don’t you? Well – if you don’t, here’s the according post. Fact is, that I’m as curious as you are about the results – that’s why I didn’t give up yet. So here are the results so far: guesses: 0 time: 30:22:54:46 c/s: […]