Cracking Passwords in Forensic Investigations - Scholarly ...

13) Craiger,
Swauger, and
Marberry,
2005
14) Mookhey,
2004
countermeasures.
Discussed the use of
forensics tools and
techniques for locating
encrypted information and
also information hidden by
steganography. Also
covered the tools and
techniques for cracking
passwords in digital
forensics to recover
obfuscated data.
Presented a list of open-
source tools used for
security and vulnerability-
checking purposes, as well
as their uses in forensics.
Also reviewed password
cracking and recovery
tools.
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Useful information for
cracking passwords in
forensic investigations.
Paper provides good
research in order to provide
for best-practice advice for
forensic investigators.
Useful for selecting the right
tools for password cracking,
improving mechanisms, and
providing comparisons with
tools. Such information
could be useful best-practice
advice for forensic
investigators.
As shown in Table 2.4 (numbers 1 to 9), many researchers such as Thing and
Ying, Graves, Dell‘Amico et al., Frykholm and Juels, Weir et al., Dandass,
Oechslin, Mentens et al., and Clayton and Bond have performed research that
could potentially help provide cost benefits to forensic investigators. Also
presented in Table 2.4 (numbers 10 to 14), researchers such as Potter, Berger et
al. , Lee et al., Craiger et al., and Mookhey have performed research in the field of
password cracking to help provide best-practice advice to forensic investigators.
2.6 KEY PROBLEMS AND ISSUES SUMMARY
The above summary of previous research shows that many questions have been
answered regarding methods, techniques and software tools. The principal
problem being investigated has been not the actual cracking of a password (which