Bugtraq: Re: HP Secure Web Console

[alec () DAKOTACOM NET (Alec Kosky)]

On 01-Dec-99 Jon Mitchell wrote:
> However we discovered that
> it does not appear to be any sort of MD5 encryption scheme (although I'm
> not an encryption expert), but in actuality what we've deemed Secret
> Decoder Ring encryption.  The letters are one to one with another letter,
> and even worse, in order as well.
>
> Here's an example of two sets of letters:
>
> You type:  abcd
> Transmits: VUTS
>
> You type:  ABCD
> Transmits: vuts
ROT13 encoding - like the caesar cipher (it may be the caesar cipher?). Take
your character and rotate 13 characters.

--Alec--