Hi Tim.
Thanks for the advice!
I'm not sure whether you meant that the breaking of the code might be
illegal, or the accessing of the passwords.
The person passing the task to me is an IT person who is in charge of
all security issues at the company, and he is usually very strict
about confidentiality and legality. He also has all of the plain text
versions of the passwords as well as the encrypted versions.
Since he already has the passwords, I figured that looking into how
they were encrypted didn't violate any privacy issues.
We asked the application owner if they would share their algorithm,
and they declined. So...we thought if we could reverse-engineer it,
and could simply use the existing data for our new application.
However, I'll pass along your comments to make sure the IT person
hasn't overlooked somethoing.
steve
Steve,
Before you attempt this, you should be aware that attempting to
break the
encrypted information stored in this database may be illegal.
Especially
since it's password information. You may want to talk with your
corporate
legal department. You may also, if possible, want to talk to the
software
company that wrote the first application and see if you can leverage
published APIs to use their algorithms for using the information.
Good Luck
Tim
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