Paper: Feasibility of attacking Windows 2000 Kerberos Passwords
Nicolas Williams
Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Wed Mar 6 09:48:05 EST 2002
You know it's not just Windows 2000 that uses PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP.
So why the title?
Nico
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:14:24PM +0000, Frank O'Dwyer wrote:
> I have uploaded a paper on the feasibility of dictionary attacking/brute
> forcing Windows 2000 Kerberos passwords (via sniffing the encrypted
> timestamp pre-authentication data) that may be of interest.
>
> I am aware that the vulnerability will not be news to anyone here, and the
> solutions are also pretty obvious, but as far as I know this has not
> received much public discussion in the context of W2K. It is also pretty
> clear that the public perception of W2K Kerberos strength against this sort
> of attack is not accurate.
>
> See http://www.brd.ie/papers/w2kkrb/feasibility_of_w2k_kerberos_attack.htm
>
> Cheers,
> Frank O'Dwyer
>
>
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