[12825] in bugtraq
Re: HP Secure Web Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alec Kosky)
Thu Dec 2 15:16:45 1999
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:21:42 -0700
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From: Alec Kosky <alec@DAKOTACOM.NET>
X-To: Jon Mitchell <jrm@FREEDOM.SWC.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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On 01-Dec-99 Jon Mitchell wrote:
> However we discovered that
> it does not appear to be any sort of MD5 encryption scheme (although I'm
> not an encryption expert), but in actuality what we've deemed Secret
> Decoder Ring encryption. The letters are one to one with another letter,
> and even worse, in order as well.
>
> Here's an example of two sets of letters:
>
> You type: abcd
> Transmits: VUTS
>
> You type: ABCD
> Transmits: vuts
ROT13 encoding - like the caesar cipher (it may be the caesar cipher?). Take
your character and rotate 13 characters.
--Alec--
