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Topic: Win2k Dialup Password
started by: kornalldaway

Posted by kornalldaway on Nov. 27 2001,18:55

say a person uses dial up to connect to internet. and say this person chose to save their password so they don't have to enter it every time.
after some time passes and person needs the password, but they already forgot it, is there a way to retreive it, aside from having to call a really anoying ISP?
obviously it is stored in a file, but how is it encrypted and what file is it?
any ideas anybody?
any links to information on this topic?

Posted by just_dave on Nov. 27 2001,19:18

Its a .pwl file. Do a search for *.pwl but how they are encrypted is a good question. I sure dont know.

Posted by Wiley on Nov. 27 2001,20:03

There are a slew of programs that can read the stored dial-up passwords. Some that come to mind are Revealer, Snitch, and Padlock by eeye.com. I have a few of them in my file vault. To get a password, take my hackertest at < http://jim.cbk.net/hackertest > . If you score 100 you'll get a password. Or give me a day or two and I will post one of the apps on a public ftp server.

Posted by kornalldaway on Nov. 27 2001,23:18

i really think that the question about Chrome Box is wrong
i never heard about it before, but a lot of searches showed that it's used to change the traffic lights. that is not one of the choices

Posted by Spydir on Nov. 27 2001,23:47

yeah. chrome boxes are used for traffic signal stuff. And phreaking has so little to do with "hacking", unless you're talking about "h4x0r1ng", in which case you're a... lamer, yeah, that's the right word.

Also, that shit's easy. damn

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Posted by kornalldaway on Nov. 28 2001,00:33

quote:
Originally posted by just_dave:
Its a .pwl file. Do a search for *.pwl but how they are encrypted is a good question. I sure dont know.

are you sure you are talking about windows 2000. i remember *.pwl files in windows 98 and 95, but i don't think those exist in windows 2000. i think it is a little more secure, but i might be wrong.

Posted by Rhydant on Nov. 28 2001,03:22

bah. i got a 30\%.

and i dont think a chrome box is for phone phreaking. im pretty sure thats called a blue-box.

can i still get access to this 'vault' thing?

Posted by ASCIIMan on Nov. 28 2001,04:38

WTF you don't know the significance of 2600? You should be taken out back and beat up for that.

Posted by kornalldaway on Nov. 28 2001,19:08

could be the chrome box question

Posted by Der_Teufel on Nov. 28 2001,19:17

If the password is masked just goto < www.cnet.com > and dl '007 Password Recovery' and it'll unmask your passwords. Great for this type of stuff and retrieving people's AIM passwords who have logged in on your computer.

Posted by Spydir on Nov. 28 2001,20:30

Actually, 2 of the questions were quite wrong. The chrome box one, and the one about the japanese guy. I did search on the name, and all I saw was stuff about tracking down mitnick (read: loser) and working for the FBI, NSA, and junk like that. And the one about 2600, there's about 80 million "correct" answers. It's also the Hz that the original blue box created, which you failed to notice.

So, either Wiley doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, or he purposely made these questions "wrong" so you get it wrong.

What I'd get? A 70. I got to lazy to convert the hex.

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Posted by peregrin on Nov. 28 2001,21:20

see, the thing with the chrome box is that it uses strobe lights to change traffic signals. if you do anything in front of a strobe, it tends to look a lot slower. just a thought.

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Posted by ASCIIMan on Nov. 29 2001,00:54

I didn't have any problems with the chrome box question... If you know what one is, and how it works, it should be pretty obvious.

edit - BTW, WTF was supposed to be the answer to the encrypted message question? I really didn't feel like trying to brute force it.

This message has been edited by ASCIIMan on November 29, 2001 at 07:56 PM

Posted by peregrin on Nov. 29 2001,05:18

i got \%90, and i am now going insane trying to figure out what i got wrong. this is really beginning to bother me. if anyone would like to confer upon the knowledge that i am missing, i would be greatful.

Posted by Spydir on Nov. 29 2001,16:48

that was MD5. the wonder's of having a /etc/shadow file

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Posted by Spydir on Nov. 29 2001,19:46

yeah. Wiley worded a lot of the questions wrong...

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Posted by ASCIIMan on Nov. 30 2001,01:23

Does this mean Wiley's not really a l33t h4x0r?

Posted by Spydir on Nov. 30 2001,02:02

yup. it also means you and me are the only people replying to this thread any more.

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Posted by ASCIIMan on Nov. 30 2001,05:11

That's what I thought, but I didn't pick MD5 because it's not an encryption algorithm. Obviously, then it could not be the answer to the question. A couple of the encryption algorithms in the list were binary, so there was a (small, but possible) chance the output could have been produced by one of those.

Posted by peregrin on Nov. 30 2001,16:31

this thing is still eating at me. i cant get more than \%90. anyone wanna help me out here?

Posted by Spydir on Nov. 30 2001,16:35

you're probably converting the hex wrong... I don't mean to offend anyone's inteligence, but by the standard that's been seen from the other questions, I'd guess wiley doesn't have the... "best" answer for it.

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Posted by ASCIIMan on Nov. 30 2001,17:12

Hey, you're right. I'm such a l4m0r.

Posted by peregrin on Dec. 01 2001,05:32

touche. however, the hex answer that i am getting seems to make sense. it's probably just that i am doing something incredibly stupidly.

Posted by Spydir on Dec. 01 2001,05:33

I wasn't cracking on your's, I was targetting wiley's

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Posted by peregrin on Dec. 01 2001,05:35

i figured that. it's just that i have always assumed that the test administrator was actually correct. other concepts hadn't really occured to me.

Posted by kornalldaway on Dec. 01 2001,14:46

yet another question to all of u 1337 h4x0rs
i have a packet that i need to send, two or tree of them to be exact, is there any program that will work under xp and do this for me.
this is not related to he dialup password question.
this is about < www.try2hack.nl >
level 7 to be exact. what happens is that i click on a link, at which point a perl script is executed. the requests information on my browser, os and the referer. then it tells me that in order to go on i need to have literally impossible requirements. so i get a packer logger and get the packets that are being sent out
altering those is no problem
at this point, my problem is sending them out with a new information and receiving proper reply
if some of you have a different way of going about that problem, i would be glad to hear any sudgestion