Windows CardSpace - setting InfoCard PIN recovery options

Quick links - Selecting CardSpace data source - Reading system credentials - Decrypting system's Master Key - Decrypting user's Master Key - Decrypting InfoCard public data - Decrypting InfoCard PIN     - Selecting recovery method     > Setting attack options     - Launching selected attack - Decrypting InfoCard private data NPRW main page

Currently there are 7 decryption methods available:

1. Preliminary attack usually runs before each attack.
2. Dictionary attack. Try every word from a dictionary until the password is found. This attack is the most effective.
3. Brute-force attack guesses the password trying all possible password variants by given character set.
4. Mask attack is very helpful if there's any information about the password.
5. Base-word attack. Useful if a part (or source word) of the password is known.
6. Combined dictionary attack uses to guess complex/compound passwords.
7. Phrase attack uses primary to search complex password by looking through a dictionary with frequently used phrases.

Take a look at general recommendations on recovering passwords from hashes.

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