Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

Generating the perfect password

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

Here's another method for creating a decent password that I stumbled across today. Essentially, the compound password is a juxtaposition of two simple words, with their letters alternating. For example, dcoagt is a compound password. Can you see the two words in there? How about now: dcoagt . The two words ...

Truecrypt

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

This software isn't necessarily for recovering passwords, but it's a really great piece of software. With Truecrypt you can create a flat file and mount it as a drive letter. This file is encrypted and you can even create a hidden volume within a Truecrypt volume which means you could ...

Password Unmask 2.0

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Here is a freeware utility that didn't work on everything I tested it on, but it did work on some. Since it's free and a very small download, then I don't see that as a huge problem. You can find this app at http://www.alpinesnow.com/pwu.shtml File this under, free and could come in ...

Need a default password?

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Then check out www.defaultpassword.com. This site offers a search of over 1200 default passwords for various pieces of hardware and software. There is a validation field for each entry although most don't seem to be validated but that is probably because the list is populated by it's visitors. If ...