Saturday, 25 January 2014

PASSWORD CRACKING

Password cracking


In computer security, password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that have been stored in or transmitted by a computer system .a common approach is to repeatedly try guesses for the password. The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password, to gain unauthorized access to a system, or as a preventive measure by system administrators to check for easily crack able passwords on a file by file basis, password cracking is utilized to gain access to digital evidence for which a judge has allowed access but the particular files access is restricted.

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