Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white | number | document OCR: Seite 12 Ausgabe 54 From: Frank Andrew Stevenson USERNAME .. .wpwpwpwpwpwpwpwp <frank@funcom.no> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Cracked: WINDOWS.PWL wpwp Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:51:36 +0100 rs ??????? (MET) rs Is A few days ago Peter Gutmann posted a rs ??????????? description on how Windows 95 produces rs ??????? RC4 keys of 32 bits size to protect the .pwl files. I verified the information and wrote a where wp is i word pointer to the different program to decrypt .pwl files with a known resources (from start of pwl file) The 2 first password, I then discovered that the .pwl files bytes of the resource (rs) is its length in bytes where well suited for a known plaintext (of course XOR with RC4 output) It is the attack as the 20 first bytes are completely pre- fairly easy to find all th ...
