Azio’s Computer Log

A friend of mine (which hopefully won’t mind me sharing this! (eek) ) shown me this the other day. It’s super. Check it out.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#Cracks md5 using wordlist, also can add words to the list from channel
#generate md5s and can check wordlist length.
#Args:
#!crack
#!insert
#!md5
#!lengthimport sys, socket, string, md5
def load_words():
try:
words = open(wordlist, “r”).readlines()
except(IOError):
print “[!] Error: Check your [...]

Secret Key Cryptography (SKC): Uses a single key for both encryption and decryption
Public Key Cryptography (PKC): Uses one key for encryption and another for decryption
Hash Functions: Uses a mathematical transformation to irreversibly “encrypt” information

Triple DES Encryption

Overview
The Data Encryption Standard (DES) was developed by an IBM team around 1974 and adopted as a national standard in 1977. Triple DES is a minor variation of this standard. It is three times slower than regular DES but can be billions of times more secure if used properly. Triple [...]

Recently I was waltzing around the internet and came accross a rather paranoid dillusional article at futurepower.net. To my surprise and total dismay the article is actually 100% valid and having read it several times to be sure I wasn’t being brainwashed and having others read it, I thought that this *MUST* be included on [...]

The Canadian company D-Wave demonstrated what it calls the first “commercial” quantum computer. The prototype machine which uses a 16-qubit process quantum computer was tested at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Although for now the machine is actually slower than many cheap home computers D-Wave is already working on a faster 1,000-qubit [...]

Here is a list of some of the worst possible passwords that exist online. Do your best to avoid them unless you wish to tempt inevitable fate.
Best Wishes,
Azio
!@#$%   !@#$%^   !@#$%^&   !@#$%^&*   000000   00000000   0007   007   007007   0246   0249   1   111   1022   [...]

Underground hackers are hawking zero-day exploits for Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system at $50,000 a pop, according to computer security researchers at Trend Micro.The Windows Vista exploit—which has not been independently verified—was just one of many zero-days available for sale at an auction-style marketplace infiltrated by the Tokyo-based anti-virus vendor.
In an interview with eWEEK, [...]

As all of you are probably aware cracking is a common element of the internet fun repotoire, and it just so happens to be one of my keener geeky aspects at testing how fast a machine is. As it turns out my latest machines are great password crackers, who would have thought eh?
Yes, I’m using [...]

In cryptography, the key size is a measure of the number of possible keys which can be used in a cipher. The length of a key is critical in determining the susceptibility of a cipher to exhaustive search attacks.
Finding Weakness
Keys are used to control the operation of a cipher so that only the correct key [...]

New versions of the ultracool tools pwdump (1.4.2) and fgdump (1.3.4) have been released.
Both versions provide some feature upgrades as well as bug fixes. Folks with really old versions of either program should definitely look at upgrading, since there are numerous performance improvements and full multithreading capabilities in both packages.
What do this apps do?
pwdump6 is [...]