Wow guarantee. Sounds like I'm going to owe you your yearly salary. Should be an easy bet for you to take. Where would you like me to mail the hard drive to. Better yet, I'll even take the hashes off for you and email you the hash.
So the rules of the bet.
I send you a hash table of Windows passwords from my system. You get 15 days to crack every single password on the system (it won't be more than 100 hashes). If you fail I win--you pay me one year of your salarly. If you succeed you win--I pay you one year of your salary. If you can't crack any passwords I win double your salary. You provide me a linux hash table of equal # of hashes. If I crack any of the passwords I win double your salary.
Your salary is determined based you last years income tax statements.
You won't be hearing from him again. Guys like him don't mind putting their zealotry out there when their butts aren't on the line. As soon as you try to make them accountable to reality, all bets are off...
I don't have the table so I can't take your bet. But I can tell you absolutely that if your passwords are 1-14 characters in length, created by the standard Windows password system, and consists of any mix of the characters "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@#$%^&*()-_+=~`[]{}|\:;"'<>,.?/ " every password on the system WILL BE CRACKED with a probability of 99.9%. Simple fact. And it covers the passwords used by almost all Windows users.
How about I buy the list, you give me remote access to your machine, have a thousand passwords conforming to the above and if I can't crack them with a 99.9% success rate, you win.
You provide me a linux hash table of equal # of hashes. If I crack any of the passwords I win double your salary.
That is a bet with a vast probability of loss. There is no way you can physically compute that number of hashes, even with a mainframe, and no lookup table big enough exists, even for a 14-character password. You would simply have to make the one in a billion (or less) odds that you get it in time. John the Ripper only works against weak Linux passwords.
I also love how you one-side your proposals, with you getting double in several cases.
It still amazes me that you aren't capable of admitting Windows is inferior in something. Your loyalty and devotion to Microsoft must be supreme. I'll show you how you can admit things because the platform isn't a religion to you. OS X Server has performance problems in some applications. Linux is not ready for the general desktop. See, it's easy. Now you try it: "The Windows password system is weak."
There, doesn't just admitting the truth feel better?