Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] TDS7 Login Packet

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:51:31 -0700
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:57:08AM -0700, Zar Cho wrote:
> Well, using Cain & Abel, I could crack the password,
> as trivially as point and click...
> So, I just wanted to know why Ethereal couldn't do it

Because nobody who knows how to crack the password has contributed code
to Ethereal to do so.  Wheether we'd add that is another matter -
Ethereal isn't intended to be a cracking or password-recovery tool.