I wanne know which one cracks the sam password faster, CAIN or LC4 ...or is there any other faster prog out there? ;P

Rainbow crack, http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/

Search the forum, its a hot topic, alot of postes about it:D

rainbowcrack is fastest IF u have axs to precompiled tables

dic attacks: go with john
brute attacks: go with lc5

thx alot, and sorry for not searching, but what about CAIN? And what do you mean wiht "precompiled tables" ?

Rainbowcrack uses rainbow tables
Use:
hxxp://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/
for more information.
BTW that site was the first hit on a google search of rainbowcrack.

uhm, I use pwdump2 to get the sam file, can I still use these "tables" ? Or do I need to get the sam file another way?

without using rainbow tabels with precompiled ones...
for win(not sure about linux and stuff) mdcrack is the fastest...
since cain and lc4 use win gui they take extra memory and time to crack...

mdcrack : http://membres.lycos.fr/mdcrack/download/mdcrack.exe
it's better...

Enjoy

well, lcrack appears to be the fastest one (not counting the rainbow tables), since it is able to smart search for passwords, i've read a tutorial about lcrack once, and it was able to crack some common passwords using bruteforce in a couple of seconds...

but i personally almost use john, since i find it easy to use and pretty fast too...

mdcrack however, only cracks the md hash, and as far as i can remember (might be mistaken) doesn't look at the lanmanhash, and most of the times the lanmanhash is available and therefor the fastest to crack...
so you need a program which can crack the lanmanhash and then when the program got the password in lanman, try the password for md5, this way it will take only a few seconds more to get the md5 hash password...

john standard only cracks the lanmanhash (meaning only uppercases), so i usually crack it first with john, and then use the outcome in a dictionary with LC5.

thx alot guys, I kinda know what tables are now, but seems like they cost money, posible to get some for free? Or do they all cost?

Well already finished tables sure cost money but of course you can compute some for yourself, check the topics on the rainbow crack page or search the forum here.

But be prepared to have you pc turned on over a week and be sure to have decent free space as the proccess very cpu and hdd consuming.

So, I just "press the button" and wait and I'll get a table? or do I need to "code" it my self? :s

With LC5, I cracked my password within one minute, it had capital letters, lots of characters, and numbers. Cain is good, but its not quite as good. However, it is useful for other things, like dial-up passwords.