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Analysis of passwords found by phishing

Abstract Today I found a interesting article on Myspace phishing site discloses countless usernames and passwords on SecuriTeam. Some one must have found the user/password combo file collected by a Phisher. It is a collection of ~57’000 User/pass (actually email/pass) … Continue reading

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Encrypted File Systems

Encrypt USBDISK or non-root disk [root@localhost /]# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb1 [root@localhost /]# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 sensitiv [root@localhost /]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/sensitiv [root@localhost /]# mount /dev/mapper/sensitiv /mnt With LVM [root@localhost /]# cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/pool_snd/snd [root@localhost /]# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/pool_snd/snd pool_enc-snd [root@localhost /]# … Continue reading

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TrueCrypt

Using the Command-Line http://blog.gnu-designs.com/truecrypt-on-linux-with-xfs-and-ext2ext3-volumes sudo truecrypt –create sudo truecrypt -l sudo mke2fs -m0 /dev/mapper/truecrypt1 sudo truecrypt /dev/sde1 /mnt/external

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About Hashes Keys and Ciphers

Contents 1 Hashes 1.1 General 1.2 Different encryptions and lenght 2 Algorithm 2.1 MD5 – Message Digest #5 2.2 SHA-1 – Secure Hash Algorithm 2.3 RIPEMD-160 3 Collisions 4 Encryption Methods 4.1 Symmetric key cryptography 4.1.1 Stream ciphers 4.1.2 Block … Continue reading

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