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Re: Need help cracking wwwboard passwd.txt
From: devin () PORTALMEDIA COM (Devin Walters)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:55:17 -0500
Understood, I understand it was off topic, but the fact remains I'm rather new to uncovering exploits, using them in the field of work I am in, etc. Being that the exploit itself came from a securityfocus mailing list, I felt vuln-dev, would be the place to ask such a questiom. As for ethics having to do with money, and 'blackmail' to get money from the intended 'victim' were far from my intentions. I had read somewhere that it was rather acceptable to ask for money in return for the answer to the problem the exploit was directed at. As it seems this is not the case, I will NOT be requesting money from the company I will be talking to... I did look around for password crackers... To narrow my question down, I'm not sure what form of encryption the passwd.txt file from the wwwboard is. Therefore finding a cracker to crack this type of password is kind of a guess and check thing, and if the answer could be attained by someone simply typing a couple lines of text, it'd be great... What I am a little curious about is, wasn't this supposed to be a mailing list directed towards people new to this whole area? If I'm doing something wrong, correct me, and I'll fix whatever is bugging you. When I ask for a 2 sentence answer I don't feel like I'm asking the world, and don't EXPECT an answer. If you don't want to answer, don't, but anything you can contribute is appreciated. I thank everyone who answered on a positive connotation. Now that I've gotten off subject, let me finish :) When I went to the wwwboard/passwd.txt file I found this inside... staff:aei1Wbt.yG9Ro If anyone here can answer some of the questions I asked above, please do so, thank you for your time... -devin
Current thread:
- Re: Need help cracking wwwboard passwd.txt Timothy Reese (Oct 19)
- Re: Need help cracking wwwboard passwd.txt Krzysztof Dabrowski (Oct 19)
- Re: Need help cracking wwwboard passwd.txt Brad Griffin (Oct 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Need help cracking wwwboard passwd.txt Devin Walters (Oct 19)
- Re: Need help cracking wwwboard passwd.txt Krzysztof Dabrowski (Oct 19)