ophcrack LiveCD 2.3.1
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The ophcrack LiveCD is a bootable Linux CD-ROM containing ophcrack 3.3.1 and a set of tables (XP free small or vista free depending on the version you downloaded). It allows for testing the strength of passwords on a Windows machine without having to install anything on it.
Just put it into the CD-ROM drive, reboot and it will try to find a
Windows partition, extract its SAM and start auditing.

Getting it

You can download the ISO image from SourceForge mirrors. http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net Package

The tables are located in directory 'tables'. Please feel free to install ophcrack and copy the tables on your harddisk if you want to use ophcrack outside of the LiveCD.

Release Notes

Version 2.3.1 is a stable public release. This LiveCD is based upon
Slitaz LiveCD cooking version (http://slitaz.org). This version of
Slitaz is not released as stable, so you can expect some minor issues when playing with it. If you're interested in Slitaz, download the latest stable version on their website.

The LiveCD has been customized to include ophcrack 3.3.1 and free tables set for either Windows XP or Windows Vista. Ophcrack will auto-detect the amout of free memory and adapts its behaviour to be able to preload all the tables it can.

A shell script launched at the beginning of the X session does the job of finding the Windows partition and starting appropriate programs to extract and crack password hashes. It will look for all partitions that contains hashes. If more than one are found, you will have to choose between them. The shell script will try to find all the tables located on the partitions it will detect. If you want that it detects your tables automatically, put them in a directory called "tables" at the root of your drive/partition
(e.g. \tables\vista_special\ or \tables\vista_num\). Ophcrack should then automatically find and use them.

If your