I’ve posted often about red team concepts including cracking passwords. I found Elcomsoft also has done this and like me, sees the same questions pop up about password cracking. They posted a really good overview of many concepts surround the topic of password breaking from legal to specifically how its down today. Here is a summary of why they posted this …
“Can you break that password? Is it legal? How much time do you think it will take to break this one? We do have the answers, but they require digging through the extensive content of our blog. To address this, we’ve created a comprehensive A to Z article that not only answers many common questions but also links to our previous posts.”
You can find the full post Password Breaking A to Z | ElcomSoft blog.