Re: Cracking simple password encryption

[Thomas Muders <thomas.muders () gmail com>]

On 12/22/05, David Hogue <davehogue () gmail com> wrote:

> password        crypted
> a               aQ==
> b               cg==
> c               ew==
> aa              aWo=
> ab              aXE=
> cc              e3g=
> aaa             aWpq
> aab             aWpx
> abb             aXFx
> bbb             cnFx

This looks just too much like base64 encoding. Decoding them as base64
indeed showed that they might be somehow shifted and  then base64
encoded:

python
> > > f=file("code")
> > > for line in f:
...   print line.rstrip('\n'),"  ", line.decode('base64')
...
aQ==    i
cg==    r
ew==    {
aWo=    ij
aXE=    iq
e3g=    {x
aWpq    ijj
aWpx    ijq
aXFx    iqq
cnFx    rqq

so you can continue with the rest, I'm too lazy for that ;)

Thomas