[geeks] Commercial Password crackers

[velociraptor]

On 3/17/06, Ido Dubrawsky <idubraws at dubrawsky.org> wrote:
> For Solaris you're probably better off using John the Ripper.  L0phtCrack
is
> for Windows systems only and probably the only other decent cracker out
there,
> made by ElcomSoft, is also a Windows product.  John the Ripper has a very
good
> algorithm and there are places out on the 'Net you can get the john.pot
files
> easily (or you can ask me...I've still got mine which is about 5MB big --
> along with a VERY large dictionary file).

Is there anything for *nices that uses the same type of "rainbow
files" that the Windows password crackers use?  They seem to me to
make more sense than dictionary files.

=Nadine=