Article by George Norman

On 27 Jan 2009

If you want to maintain a certain level of security and privacy, then you must password protect your data; things like files you do not want others to see and accounts you do not want to get hacked. The problem with passwords is that they need to be strong, so your password should not be something simple – the longer and the more complicated, the better.

Let’s say that you have a password like “|hav3dab33stesTTp@55w0rdEv4!” for example. Because its length exceeds 25 characters, you will soon find out that some web forms do not accept your secure, yet lengthy password. The most annoying part is that your Firefox browser does not let you see exactly what you are typing; all the letters, numbers and characters are switched with the * symbol, so you never know what went wrong: typing error, misspelled password, or simply the fact that the form is limited to 25 characters long passwords.


Thanks to a Firefox add-on called Show Passwords, you will never again have problems filling in web forms or accessing online accounts. The add-on performs a very simple task: it eliminates those annoying * symbols and lets you see exactly what you are typing into the password field. Show Passwords can be easily turned on and off by clicking on the icon placed in the Firefox Status Bar.

Since using the same password to protect all your accounts is not a good idea, you will end up with numerous hard to remember passwords stored on your machine, which of course need protecting. With the Treehouse Goods developed SkeletonKey, you can password protect and encrypt all your passwords. There is even an Auto Fill feature for the sites and online accounts you access on a frequent basis. Alternatively you might want to check out KeePass which offers pretty much the same functionality as SkeletonKey, but free-of-cost.

Moving on to the cracking part of the article, you should know that with PicoZip you can perform a dictionary and a brute force attack on password protected zip archive, uncover the aforementioned password and use it to access the archive.

If you would like to get Show Passwords for Firefox, a download location is available here.
If you would like to get SkeletonKey, a download location is available here.
If you would like to get KeePass, a download location is available here.
If you would like to get PicoZip Recovery Tool, a download location is available here.



Tags: Showw PAsswords, SkeletonKey, Keepass, PicoZip

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