[Full-disclosure] Re: Windows XP Home LSA secrets stores XP login passphrase in plain text

[Markus Jansson <seemyhomepage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh, couple minor corrections to the original post:

 > Now, let me clear few things up, ok:
> - Im not talking about bruteforcing NL/NTLM/NTLMv2/NT hashes.
Im ofcourse talking about LM/NTLM/NTLMv2/NT hashes.

> - HOWEVER, if you can actually GET the users password (he is currently 
> using) the way Im talking about now, you can do a lot of harm with that. 
> You can, for example, decrypt all EFS encrypted files in normal 
> situations (since users EFS privatekey is encrypted using users 
> passphrase).
Ofcourse XP Home edition does not have EFS at all, but this attack/bug 
is also present in some XP Pro.

--
My computer security & privacy related homepage
http://www.markusjansson.net
Use HushTools or GnuPG/PGP to encrypt any email
before sending it to me to protect our privacy.

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/