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decrypt hex password?

  • April 26, 2007 at 3:22 pm

    #92345

    We are porting apps (sql 2000) to a new sans cluster (sql 2005). Problem is... we have no source code for one of the old apps and don't know the password. Packet sniffing found a hex string representation, how can we decrypt it?

  • April 26, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    #702837

    Are you sure it's not just ASCII?

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • April 27, 2007 at 4:57 am

    #702874

    We figured it out with this tip. "The password is converted to a wide character format (UNICODE) and each byte XOR'd with a constant fixed value of 0xA5". So it was decrypted by XORing each with OxA5, then flipping the bits and converting that hex value to ascii.

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