Yet Another password storing problem (was: Re: Possible Netscape

From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos (adamoat_private)
Date: Fri Feb 19 1999 - 06:58:13 PST

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    On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 01:02:08PM -0600, HD Moore wrote:
    > The password is *still* in the registry after you close netscape,
    
    Now that we are talking about Netscape, here is another similar bug.
    
    Kabsoftware (http://www.kabsoftware.com) produces a *very* handy utility that
    let's you check your email via POP3 (without downloading it) and other stuff
    like that (check their www page if you are interested).
    
    It appears that Lydia (the utility) stores the user passwords in
    C:\Windows\Lydia.INI.
    
    However, the encryption algorithm is trivial.  I am not a cryptanalyst in any
    way and it took me 30min to find out the mapping between the ascii space and
    the scrambling they do. (Basically they map each character to 2 bytes).
    
    I notified Kabsoftware in January, and they responded promptly that "the
    encryption in Lydia algorithm is casual" and that they are going to change it
    in a future release.
    
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    Yiorgos Adamopoulos         -- #include <std/disclaimer.h>
    adamoat_private     -- Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, NTUA
    



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