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Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

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Re: DES

It's worth pointing out that NTLM (and NTLMv2 which uses HMAC-MD5) have been depreciated since 2009, and if you're administering a Windows network these days you should totally disable NTLM and just use Kerberos with AES instead.

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