[plug] MSBackup and password (OT)

[Mark Nold]

http://www.lostpassword.com/backup.htm offers such a tool for $45 US

Or you could create a few backup files yourself with the same data but 
different passwords and have a look at it in a Hex Editor (for Windows i use 
www.ultraedit.com for this sort of stuff) and see if it just prepends some sort 
of header and is not really encrypted.

You can download a demo and confirm it works by bringing back the first letter 
of the password. Try creating your own backup onthe same system to confirm this 
realy works, or it may even give you a hint of the password.


mn







Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Wednesday, 30 May 2001 9:43, Kevin Shackleton [SMTP:kevins at wn.com.au] wrote:
> I have an MSBackup file here on my machine - is there a way of unpacking it
> including a password crack?
> 
> It appears that the password protection is quite basic and there is a Windows
> program available to crack the password (for a fee).
> 
> (This is quite legit - the person who saved this data used a password and
> didn't
> tell the person who owned the data!)
> 
> K.
> 
> 
>