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 algorithm used to produce NTLM hashes, not the older LM scheme stored in Windows 2000 SAM files.

LM hashing splits a password into two 7-character chunks, pads each to 7 bytes, and independently encrypts the fixed plaintext 'KGS!@#$%' using each chunk as a DES key. The resulting two 8-byte DES ciphertexts are concatenated to form the LM hash, and because each half is attacked separately, the effective key space is drastically reduced compared to full brute force.

SHA is a general-purpose cryptographic hash function used in certificate chains and modern password schemes, not in the LM hashing process.

SSL is a transport-layer security protocol for encrypting network communications, not an algorithm used for password storage or hashing.