There has been, again, some development within the loki domain. Today I’m going to write about the latest module added to the suite, a module for decoding and cracking Cisco’s TACACS+.
TACACS is the Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System, a protocol for handling remote user authentication and central access control. It originated in 1984 and was used in the old Unix world. TACACS+ is a related protocol developed by Cisco Systems and is widely used for AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) on IOS based devices. It was released as an open standard in 1993 (and expired in 1998 by the way ;-)).
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