[12849] in bugtraq
Re: HP Secure Web Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Zverina)
Fri Dec 3 20:41:46 1999
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:53:41 +1100
Reply-To: David Zverina <davidz@ALTKEY.COM>
From: David Zverina <davidz@ALTKEY.COM>
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> > 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.
Actually it's not rot13 as the distances between letter are varible. It's
even simpler ... it's a straight xor of every character with 0x37 ('7'
ascii). Is there any '7' in any password (key) that you may have specified?
Dave.
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David Zverina
Alt Key Pty. Ltd.
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PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia
