[dbetteridge]

I recall using ntlm rainbow tables to crack windows hashes in high school in like 2008?

Amazing that this is still around and causing someone enough of a headache to justify spending money on.

Also amazing what a teenager with lots of free time and a bootable Linux usb can get up to.

[eerikkivistik]

There used to be a joint online project to compute these tables in a SETI like distributed system. Everyone who contributed their CPU cycles, could use the tables. And yeah, around 2005-2008.

[coopreme]

LM, nthash aka NTLM, net-ntlmv1 aka ntlmv1, net-ntlmv2 aka NTLMv2. Challenge response stuff is different. Naming here is painful.

[bri3d]

net-ntlmv1 rainbow tables have been around forever too though, the same attack documented in this blog post has been hosted as a web service at https://crack.sh/netntlm/ for 10+ years

[dbetteridge]

Ah Microsoft and naming things... Name a better combo

But fair enough, I don't recall which exact version I was mucking with that long ago.

[rootsudo]

yep, that and also can use cain and abel even back then... hardest part was putting whatever network card in promiscious mode.

[dbetteridge]

Yes!! That was the software, thanks for the memory trigger