L0phtcrack is now open source. It was a commercial password cracker for over 20 years. Here is the history.

https://www.slideshare.net/cwysopal/history-of-l0phtcrack

History of L0phtCrack

The history of one of the most famous Windows password cracker.

This was from Passwords Con 2015 at University of Cambridge, UK, William Gates Building.

Yes, I lectured on cracking poor windows encryption in the William Gates building!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wh3z2KYJcM&list=PLdIqs92nsIzQvvbTiWLLjZOVE7jPBDomw&index=1

00 Passwords 2015 Keynote 1: Chris Wysopal

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@Weld Ah, such memories of this tool
@Weld Still in disbelief it’s been 20 years already!
@Weld still remember the first time I used this as a test against an NT4 domain. It started with laughing at how quick it worked which then morphed into terror as the results sunk in.