Last time I check you can't decrypt something done by crypt... I don't see where in my mud code it decrypts what they said.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dale Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ROM" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: Re: Odd crypt question Actually, it's not quite that simple. You CAN take what they said is their password, but it's not going to get you anywhere.. Believe me, I've tried. the logical way to do this would be create a function called decrypt_pass(CHAR_DATA *ch, char *argument) somewhere in the code when they enter the correct password into the game: decrypt pass(ch, argument); case CON_GET_OLD_PASSWORD: #if defined(unix) write_to_buffer( d, "\n\r", 2 ); #endif decrypt_pass (ch, argument); BUT, this doesn't work. It simply throws the last command the character typed into the field that this is saved as (I tried it and checked) So, it's not as simple as grabbing what they 'say' is their password. This is actually a good thing, otherwise it'd be too easy for someone to grab player passwords. Unfortunately, my php experience is highly limited (I'm getting there, but it isn't exactly easy), and my encryption experience actually is less.. It's not exactly something I'm looking forward to tackling, but it's something that needs to be done. I'm not sure what Jason was referring to, I'm kind of lost there to be honest. The portal uses md5 encryption, but to get that going I'd assume would be too hard to deal with. On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:50 pm, Dale Kingston wrote: > you don't decrypt the password. what you do is you crypt the password and > then when they log in you take what they said was their password and crypt > that and then you see if their the exact same. you don't have to decrypt it > just compare the two results. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 6:07 PM > Subject: Odd crypt question > > > Greetings, > > Over the past few months, I've been in the process of dealing with sql > files, > playing with web users and the like, in the ultimate effort to create a > user database that is intertwined with web and telnet users (eventually). > > In doing so, however, I've run across a few problems with crypt(), or maybe > it's just that I don't understand crypt all that well (either way it's a > problem). > > The file gets written to the database (sql), rather well, but i can't > figure out which version of encryption is used to figure rom passwords out. > Is this system crypt? md5? custom? > > If it's custom, is there a way to take this password, decrypt it (without > having to use plain passwords), in order for it to be encrypted, or thrown > into the database so that php/sql can recognize it somehow, or is this > pretty > much out of the question?
