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- Yet Another password storing problem (was: Re: Possible Netscape
-
- Yiorgos Adamopoulos (adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr)
- Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:58:13 +0200
-
- On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 01:02:08PM -0600, HD Moore wrote:
- > The password is *still* in the registry after you close netscape,
-
- Now that we are talking about Netscape, here is another similar bug.
-
- Kabsoftware (http://www.kabsoftware.com) produces a *very* handy utility that
- let's you check your email via POP3 (without downloading it) and other stuff
- like that (check their www page if you are interested).
-
- It appears that Lydia (the utility) stores the user passwords in
- C:\Windows\Lydia.INI.
-
- However, the encryption algorithm is trivial. I am not a cryptanalyst in any
- way and it took me 30min to find out the mapping between the ascii space and
- the scrambling they do. (Basically they map each character to 2 bytes).
-
- I notified Kabsoftware in January, and they responded promptly that "the
- encryption in Lydia algorithm is casual" and that they are going to change it
- in a future release.
-
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- Yiorgos Adamopoulos -- #include <std/disclaimer.h>
- adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA
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