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Which crypto algorithm? was: Communicator 4.5 stores EVERY

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luis Saiz)
Fri Nov 6 15:49:12 1998

Date: 	Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:46:07 +0100
Reply-To: Luis Saiz <lsaiz@ATOS-ODS.COM>
From: Luis Saiz <lsaiz@ATOS-ODS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG

Hi all,

Does anybody know the algorithm used to encrypt the passwords in
Communicator??

It seems it is stored in 12 bytes base64 independently of clear password
length (almost for less than 9 characters)

TIA,

Luis Saiz
ATOS-ODS

--
Crypto can't create trust.  It merely automates the trust that
already exists for other reasons.

--John Gilmore

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