Windows .PWL cracker implemented as a Word Basic virus
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Sun Dec 10 14:14:35 PST 1995
Dan Bailey writes:
> No, but they're doing something that makes me very uncomfortable: As
> I read this, they're hashing the password and some other user
> information using MD4 then doing some proprietary permutations on
> that. Given their record with security, I'd rather they used straight
> MD4, rather than throwing in something that we can't analyze.
MD4 has been broken. I thought that was common knowledge. MD5 is still
safe, of course.
Perry
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