2) Password Cracking In these exercise you will download a password cracker. Dow

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2) Password Cracking In these exercise you will download a password cracker. Download from sectools.org this tool and run them on your system. Cain and Abel and generate MD5 hash for the word laser, perform a dictionary attack on this work and indicate if the hash was cracked, it it was at what word location was it found. Cracked: YES or NO Word Location: Download the file called hash.bxt that was obtained from a Windows XP machine. Use that file to crack the password contained within it. The file resides in Blackboard and is called "XP HashFile". Copy that file to your home directory in Kali, run John the Ripper using john and write down the passwords that it discovered: Find the directory that john uses and write down the file and directory name. Open the file and see the dictionary words. Now, count how many words are in this dictionary, Enter we -l filename This will count the number of lines in the file giving you the count:

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Here is the answer for your question as detailed in the following steps.

1)You switch on your computer.

2) Log into your account.

3) open a browser.

4) Type " sectools.org " in the address bar.

5) A web page will be opened.

6) Find windows XP icon and down load the cracker.

7) Run it.

8) Type in wc -l filename .

The file name with which you saved the file.

9) You will find the count.

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