bugtraq - Re: John the Ripper 1.7; pam_passwdqc 1.0+; tcb 1.0; phpass 0.0

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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:03:40 +0100
From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@...ra-secure.de>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: John the Ripper 1.7; pam_passwdqc 1.0+; tcb 1.0; phpass 0.0

Solar Designer wrote:

>
>Finally, often it is preferable to not spend lots of disk space and lots
>of time and/or bandwidth to generate or download rainbow tables, -- and
>also to not reveal your password hashes to a third party (such as one of
>the online rainbow tables based cracking services).
>  
>

I don't think such a move (upload hash to 3rd-party site) is covered 
with any sensible pen-tester NDA (and related work).
(Though professional pentesters might have their own set of rainbow-tables)

So, this is a good reason, still.

cheers,
Rainer