Purpose

We rely on passwords to safeguard information that we wish to keep confidential - email, financial information, even our facebook pages, are accessible only after a password is entered. But how safe are they. What really makes for a strong password. In this lab I will attempt to crack the login information for a Windows system, and a Unix system.

Materials and Methods

For this lab I used the two most popular password cracking utilities - Cain and Abel on windows, and John the Ripper on