password encryption
hello, sorry if am posting off forum topic, but icouldnt find any useful crypto forum(tell me if u know any)
i have a DB column that have a password, which is encoded/encrypted i dont know, the string looks like this -127;-103;-62;-39;35;47;9;37; the field length is 29 char it only contains digits, semi colons and dashes its always 8 characters(i assume that a semicolon is a new char) what kind of encryption/encoding is that?any idea how to decrypt/decode that? it doesnt look like any popular algorithm, not ASCII codes! what is it then :) please advice regards, |
What program is it that you're using?
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Passwords are usually stored as a hash (which is a one-way encryption). To verify a password, a program will run the same hash-function on the password that a user provided and compare it to a stored value. |
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this data is stored in an Oracle 9i DB (maybe its an oracle builtin function??)
and the application is a JAVA web application. yes, i understand that most encryption algorithms use a one way hash function, but it could still be brute forced, with the correct key, some luck and alot of time :) |
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