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Article #49Re: shadow file
From: Justins local account
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:43
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:43
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roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) writes: > In article <cp6ki9$je4$05$1@news.t-online.com>, Frank <lol@privacy.net> wrote: > :i'd like to see if it's possible to decode this file.... > > :root:$1$BZftq3sP$xEeZmr2fGEnKjVAxzj/o51:12747:0:99999:7::: > Thus, in order to decode the password, one would have to find a > password whose MD5 was represented in base64 as xEeZmr2fGEnKjVAxzj/o51 . password when hashed with BZftq3sP as a salt matches xEeZmr2fGEnKjVAxzj/o51 > There are services which are generating pretty much all 8 bit > lowercase + digit plaintexts and using MD5 to encrypt them and > saving the result, but these services don't work with the "salted" > MD5 of shadow password files. > -- Justin Murdock
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