Microsoft passwords eminently crackable

But that has prompted serious questions about the methods Microsoft uses to encode passwords, according to an article on the news.com wire.

The Swiss boffin wrote an email to the wire claiming that Microsoft passwords are not very good because they don't include random information.

And a paper he has published uses a giant look up table to show just how easy it is to break both LANMan Windows passwords and the later NTHash system the Vole employs.

But the boffin may have attracted the ire of Microsoft because he didn't bother to alert the firm to his research before releasing the paper, news.com claims. µ

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