The following text was posted to USENET, and indexed on a Russian cypherpunk site. I found it when I was doing some work with Access 97 databses. I think you will agree that this particular "feature" makes the linked database password issue moot. >Subject: Re: MS Access 2.0 >From: adamat_private (Adam Shostack) >Date: 1998/06/23 >Message-ID: <199806231244.IAA04637at_private> >Newsgroups: ailab.coderpunks >[More Headers] [Image] >[Subscribe to ailab.coderpunks] > > Part of doing research is to ensure you're not re-inventing >the wheel before you start doing hard work. I'm perfectly happy to >have Mike ask questions about this stuff; the answers are often >enlightening to the rest of us. > > Anyway, Access97 passwords are stored in the 13 bytes from offset >0x42 in a .mdb file. Do a bitwise XOR with 0x86, 0xFB, 0xEC, 0x37, >0x5D, 0x44, 0x9C, 0xFA, 0xC6, 0x5E, 0x28, 0xE6, 0x13 to recover the >plaintext. I think that if the first byte is 0x86, the password is >not checked. > >Adam Stephen M. Milton System Administrator ISOMEDIA, Inc.
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