{"id":250,"date":"2026-05-01T02:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/?p=250"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:36:30","slug":"assignment-5-password-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/2026\/05\/01\/assignment-5-password-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 5 &#8211; Password Cracking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lab 5 was one of my favorite assignments. I created users, assigned passwords, and used sudo cat shadow\u00a0to convert the users&#8217; credentials into a <strong>hash<\/strong> file. Then, I used John the Ripper\u00a0and rockyou.txt to crack the passwords stored in the hash file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The John the Ripper tool gave me the most trouble. I struggled to get it to run, mostly because of rockyou.txt. I tried to use it because I glanced over the <strong>.gz<\/strong> part of the file name. I eventually used <strong>gunzip<\/strong> to get into a usable form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This assignment emphasized the importance of a strong password and how easy it is for someone to crack hashes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lab 5 was one of my favorite assignments. I created users, assigned passwords, and used sudo cat shadow\u00a0to convert the users&#8217; credentials into a hash file. Then, I used John the Ripper\u00a0and rockyou.txt to crack the passwords stored in the hash file. The John the Ripper tool gave me the most trouble. I struggled to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/2026\/05\/01\/assignment-5-password-cracking\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":20235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}