Out of curiosity, how do you know that's the correct password?

All right. This one's got me feeling like a super-idiot. What I know so far: the letters are blocks of three, e.g.: .xxx.xxx.xxx = letter. I know (from reading this forum) that the three numbers are related a certain way. What I want to know is -how- did you figure that out? I've tried lots of thing...

Yeah, I figured it out. I just used lcrack instead, though many have said running C&A with wine is possible. I'm just not a fan of using wine to run windows progs when I can find a native alternative.

Hello, I've seen numerous "Cain & Abel" suggestions, but I use linux. I've tried brute-forcing and dictionary-attacking with John the Ripper, but I'm pretty sure that the hash used isn't supported by JTR (MDx we'll call it). Does anyone have any suggestions or know of a site that has t...