On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Chuck Reed wrote:
>I'm working on two different places right now, and I wrote some code to
>show imps the password of any player in the game for one of them. In my
>transfering of the code to the second mud, the GET_PASSWD(ch) and
>chdata.pwd return the crypted passwords. This was not the case for the
>first mud, but both use password encryption. I'm guessing that since one
>is FreeBSD and the other is Linux (redhat 4.0 i think), that the
>encryption is a ton different. What I'm asking is where I could find a
>way to DEcrypt the password string.
Buy yourself the DES cracking machine recently in the DES-II-2 contest and
it'll have it done in 56 hours. I think its going for a bit over $50,000
now...
In other words, forget it unless you have lots of time to brute force it
with a puny processor. :)
(Of course, you _might_ get lucky with a dictionary attack...)
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http://mouse.van.ml.org/ (not done) | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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