This lovely hack solves one of the problems. And with slight modification - also the other one: all I should do is copy the ciphertext of the forgotten password to the ad-hoc 127.0.0.1 site, and then, see what plaintext is received there.
Very simple. Far from elegant. Cool. On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:08:26PM +0300, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > I found out that mozilla encrypts all passwords in the same way. > > This means, that you can encrypt it for another site ;) > > Create your own website with form. > set the correct fields... > save your password... > and change the site that owns the password... > > > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > A certain site, whose name I would not mention, tries to be smarter than me and > > disallows storing its password in my local, well-protected, mozilla password > > manager. > > > > I saw that I can enter the password to the local database at > > mozilla/default/xxxxx/yyyy.s but my problem is that the enries there are > > encrypted. How can I encrypt my favourite password to fit there? > > How can I decrypt an other, long-forgotten password, which is still stored > > there? > > > > I guess I could look at the mozilla code to see how they do it, but I'd > > appreciate if someone save me this by saying something like > > echo 1qQTn4PUPa8BucF3FVpfA32/0f0b5GGF | openssl des3 -d -a -K AAAAAA -iv 0 > > or point me to a fine manual. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -- > Orr Dunkelman, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that reason infallibly > be faulty" -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick. > > Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html > GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3 2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA > (This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys.) -- Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
