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Further article with a rebuttal from the developers of cryptDB and a reply from the reseacher explaining the original developer is an idiot.
Researchers respond to developer?s accusation that they used crypto wrong | Ars Technica UK
as it is so many ms apps use a more secure encrypt for passwords but a weak one for the core database; so you can be in there straight away and either set up new users with blanco password or privelige escalate existing ones; and add your new superuser to use as you please.
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With windows xp account passwords could be up to 14 characters and was hashed )NYLM) which seems reasonable against rainbow table attacks and stuff but then the genuises decided to SPLIT the password into 2 y charachter chunks and hash those. I got hold of the Ophcrack xp special rainbow tables and probbaly longest crack ever took 5 minutes.
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