New Moxie Marlinspike Tool Cracks Crypto Passwords

By samzenpus, SlashdotJuly 30, 2012 at 01:15PM

Gunkerty Jeb writes “Moxie Marlinspike, the security and privacy researcher known for his SSLStrip, Convergence and RedPhone tools, has released a new tool that can crack passwords used for some VPNs and wireless networks that rely on encryption using Microsoft’s MS-CHAPv2 protocol. Marlinspike discussed the tool during a talk at DEF CON over the weekend, and it is available for download.”


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