1. Protecting Your Password
By Patrick Mullaney

2. Protecting Your Password
Operating Systems
Banks and Credit Card
Personally

3. OS Password Protection
Windows XP
Solaris 10
Mac OS X

4. Windows XP MD4 Message Digest algorithm 32-bit one-way hash
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32-bit one-way hash
Zero length string
31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0
Located in these files
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SYSTEM

5. Solaris 10 MD5 Message Digest Algorithm
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128-bit Cryptographic Hash Function
Zero length string
d41d8cd98f00b204e ecf8427e
Located in
/etc/default/password

6. MD5 Algorithm

7. Mac OS X SHA1 and LM Hash Algorithm 104 Character String Hashed Twice
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104 Character String Hashed Twice
First 64 LM Hash
Last 40 SHA1
Example
D47F3AF827A48F7DFA4F2C1F12D68CD608460EB13C5CA0C4CA F7FED95
01424F955C11F92EFEF0B79D7FA3FB6BE56A9F99
Located in
/var/db/shadow/hash/

8. SHA1 Algorithm

9. Financial Password Protection
Banks and Credit Card Companies
PNC Bank
Security questions
Personal Security Image and Caption
128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Discover Card

10. 128-bit Secure Socket Layer

11. Personal Password Protection
Create Strong Password
Safe Place to Store Password

12. Creating a Strong Password
Good Strategies
Think of a sentence
Use the first letter of each word
Use the whole keyboard
Use letters, numbers, and symbols
Long password
More than 8 characters

13. Creating a Strong Password
Strategies to Avoid
Dictionary words
Dictionary attacks
Repeated characters
1111 or $$$$$
Keyboard sequence
qwerty or asdf

14. Creating a Strong Password
Checking for a Strong Password
Password checker

15. Safe Place to Store Password
Remember by
Mnemonic Device
Combination of characters that mean something
Avoid
Writing them down
Programs that remember your password
Telling others

16. References http://www.wikipedia.org/