You are attempting to crack LM Manager hashed from Windows 2000 SAM file. You will be using LM Brute force hacking tool for decryption. What encryption algorithm will you be decrypting?

MD4 is the hashing algorithm used to generate NTLM hashes from the full Unicode password - it is a separate mechanism from the DES-based LM hash.

The LM hashing process splits a password into two 7-character chunks (null-padded), converts them to uppercase, then uses each chunk as a 56-bit DES key to encrypt the static plaintext string 'KGS!@#$%'. The two resulting 8-byte DES ciphertexts are concatenated to form the 16-byte LM hash stored in the SAM file, so a brute-force tool must enumerate DES key space independently for each half to recover the password.

SHA is a modern cryptographic hash function used in protocols like TLS and certificate signing but plays no role in the LM password hashing scheme.

SSL is a transport-layer protocol for securing network communications and is entirely unrelated to the LM password storage mechanism in the SAM file.