If you're outside the USA and Canada then you might already know that
you can no longer buy a copy of the popular L0phtcrack password cracking tool.
However there are alternatives. As I wrote in Security UPDATE Newsletter, another tool, LCP, performs the same functions. The tool, developed by a Russian programmer, is
available freely on the Web .
If you missed my editorial, "
Password Cracking Made Easy," then you can read it on our Web site to learn about other tools you might use to test password strength and recover unknown passwords.
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