* http://www.securitystats.com/tools/hashcrack.php - "The "Golden Rule"
of password security is NOT to choose a password that is easily
guessable, or one that might be found in a dictionary. The reason for
this is that many hacker tools can crack dictionary-based passwords in
mere seconds. This web based demonstration shows how truly easy it is
to break dictionary based passwords, regardless of the type of
encryption algorithm used to encrypt them. Simply paste in an encrypted
password value, and then count the seconds it takes to return the
password associated with that encrypted value (won't be long...)"
Comment - super cool. Based on the next type of project.

* http://www.antsight.com/zsl/rainbowcrack/ - - "RainbowCrack is a
general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster
time-memory trade-off technique. In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a
hash cracker. A traditional brute force cracker try all possible
plaintexts one by one in cracking time. It is time consuming to break
complex password in this way. The idea of time-memory trade-off is to
do all cracking time computation in advance and store the result in
files so called "rainbow table". It does take a long time to precompute
the tables. But once the one time precomputation is finished, a
time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a
brute force cracker, with the help of precomputed tables."

* http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/%7Eoechslin/projects/ophcrack/ - "Ophcrack is
a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using
rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off,
with better performance."

* http://www.securitydata.home.pl/index_pliki/TotalPasswordRecovery.msi
- Total Password Recovery is an application that will recover any
password of exist Account on local machine under system windows NT,
XP, 2000, 2003 Server, Vista."

* http://home.eunet.no/%7Epnordahl/ntpasswd/ - "Forgot your NT admin
password? Reinstall? Oh no.. But not any more.. This is a utility to
(re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on
your NT system, by modifying the crypted password in the registry's SAM
file. You do not need to know the old password to set a new one. It
works offline, that is, you have to shutdown your computer and boot off
a floppy disk or CD. The bootdisk includes stuff to access NTFS
partitions and scripts to glue the whole thing together. Works with
syskey (no need to turn it off, but you can if you have lost the key)
Will detect and offer to unlock locked or disabled out user accounts!"
Comment - the most famous and maybe still most popular method to
change your lost NT based system password.

* http://www.cgsecurity.org/ntfs.html - "You can access in read/write
mode to your NTFS partition files from MSDOS and you can change NT
administrator password :)) It works for NT 3.5 and NT 4. Support for

* http://www.lcpsoft.com/english/index.htm - "LCP is a password
auditing and recovery tool for. It can be used to test password
security, or to recover lost passwords. The program can import from the
local (or remote) computer, or by loading a SAM, LC, LCS, PwDump or
Sniff file. LCP supports dictionary attack, brute force attack, as well
as a hybrid of dictionary and brute force attacks."