I bet this really belongs in an other thread, but since you brought contributing up, here goes

I want to contribute, but i only got these lousy 2ghz machines, so I wonder, is there really any point?
What kind of specs do you need to be any help at all? I do have many machines available though.
And is there a specific port the program uses? As there are certain port restrictions in our ISP firewall.

every machine helps!

it doesnt matter how slow it is (well 2Ghz == about 2,5 - 3 hours per WU) you should just adjust settings so they wont get more WUs than they can take (extras settings network workingbuffer)

It used port 80 to upload and download WU's

I suggest to make a bigger MD5 tables or make a WPA/WPA2 tables.

I'd also like to have MD5 oder SHA tables.
Why not make a poll?

because we wont do any other table for now until we finished the current one. after that im sure we can do other tables.

Are we close to deciding which tables to do next yet? Who decides BTW?

I have dedicating quite some processing power to the project now (got my team up to 14th place in under a week :p)
The tables we are generating now are just perfect, and I hope we will be generating some clever NTLM tables next
Or mscache for administrator, as that WOULD be useful to a lot of ppl

What are the current top candidates for generation?

i give my vote to ntlm too (even if there's no poll atm)
let's see what PB has in mind

in fact pb decides but you can always make suggestions.
btw: we have only been using boinc for two weeks now ...

Hahaha! That explains a lot! I was wondering what you guys had been doing all this time :p
Still, I WILL be number 1!

I have made a few suggestions, but I don't know if anyone is keeping any record of the suggestions.
I still keep my finger on something like hybrid(upperalpha#1-1,loweralpha#1-9) or hybrid(upperalpha#1-1,loweralpha#1-8,numeric#1-1)
If not autogenerated, passwords tend to start with a capital letter, and often ends with a number.

Of course bigger ntlm tables in general would have been great, like 1-8 mixalpha-numeric or 1-7 mixalpha-numeric-all

Couldn't you put up a poll? I bet the current tables will be finished over christmas

edit: combined my two posts

there you go !

CAST YOUR VOTES FOLKS!

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hi... i think there are already lots of ntlm, lm, sha, md5 rt over internet, it would be cool to innovate, do other algorithms like oracle new sha-1, mscache, cisco ios/pix md5, vnc 3des, wordpress, etc...

Wordpress uses SALTs, so we can't generate tables for that, unless the SALT is somehow limited and/or broken. DCC-Hashes (MS Cache) use the username as some sort of SALT, so you need to guess it as well, limiting the tables usually to administrator/admin. With VNC I'm not really sure, it used some sort of fixed key a while ago, but that was around 2000. Don't know if current releases of Real and UltraVNC still do that.

With the cisco PIX hashes I'm also not really sure - do they still use base64-coded MD5? Also thought that was a bunch of years ago. Maybe someone else can shed light on that.

Yes:
mscache (user name salt), cisco ios/pix md5 (normal MD5 with password null padded to 16 bytes, output is 96 bits in base64, 24 bits from each variable a,b,c,d)

No:
oracle new sha-1 (10 byte salt [80 bits]), vnc 3des (couldn't find the algorithm but Cain has a column for challenge... so that means it's salted), wordpress (8 character salt [48 bits])