Windows Passwords Everything You Need To Know.pptVIP

Windows Passwords: Everything You Need To Know Overview How passwords are stored How passwords are used How passwords are attacked Password best practices In the beginning… Password Representations LM “hashes” Old technology used on LAN Manager NT hashes A.k.a., Unicode password or MD4 hash Used for authentication on more recent Windows systems Cached credentials Derivation of NT hash Stored User Names and Passwords Calling application decides on representation LM “Hash” Generation Padded with NULL to 14 characters Converted to upper case Separated into two 7 character strings LM “Hash” Consi