Password Security Software For Mac
OphCrack is a free rainbow-table based password cracking tool for Windows. It is the most popular Windows password cracking tool, but can also be used on Linux and Mac systems. It cracks LM and NTLM hashes. For cracking Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, free rainbow-tables are also available.
Soft windows for mac. + 8 Password Manager Options for Mac and iOS Posted on September 27th, 2012 by and Passwords are like undergarments: it’s good to keep them hidden, and you should change them often. Likewise, if someone sees your password it may leave you feeling exposed and uncomfortable. As we mentioned in our post, it's important to create complex, unique passwords so they're more difficult to crack. Unfortunately, the more complicated your passwords, the easier they are to forget. How do you securely keep track of all your different passwords? With a password manager, of course!
There's a lot more to love about password managers than not having to remember so many passwords. The blog linked above (“Even 1Password doesn’t measure up to LastPass on security features alone”) appears to base its entire security claim on the use of multi-factor in LastPass.
It’s kindof an apples-to-oranges comparison, though, because 1Password data (stored locally) does not require “authentication”, but “decryption” as explained at the last subheading here: (1Password users should wait a bit before trying Dropbox’s two-step verification). LastPass is not authenticating you in order to unlock your encrypted blob, it is authenticating you in order to decide whether you can retrieve the blob from the remote server where it is stored.
Both systems perform the actual decryption of the keystore on your local machine, and the security of that is controlled entirely by the security of your passphrase. Also, while the linked article is over a year old (and so maybe LastPass has caught up by now), it does note that 1Password employs PBKDF2 and LastPass doesn’t. I’d rather have the security of PBKDF2 effectively preventing brute-force attacks against my keystore, than the orthogonal and irrelevant “protection” that 2-factor auth with LastPass offers. As Tommy Knowlton mentioned, 1Password technically doesn’t even perform “one-factor” authentication since it is an *encryption* app. 🙂 Multistep authentication has clear and obvious security benefits.
So it is more than natural for people to ask why 1Password doesn’t employ it. We’re planning to write a more detailed explanation of our developing thoughts on it, but let’s discuss the difference between authentication and decryption. When you connect to some service, like Dropbox, you or your system has to prove that it really has the rights to log in as you.