Re: Cracking Base64 Passwords Perl Script.

hello

there is a website where you can do the same

http://www.securitystats.com/tools/base64.asp

regards

javier

--- Singapore Dragon <dragon_at_securityassoc.com> wrote:
> Tool to crack Base64 passwords - could not find
> anything similar on the
> Internet.
>
> Download Tool:
> http://www.securityassoc.com/base64_crack.zip
>
> MD5 Hash: D905C844168D4D2D1755C1393E18CC96
>
> Below from Readme.txt file:
>
> Base64 Encoding
> ---------------
>
> While pen testing and looking around for something
> to crack a Base64
> encoded password I could not find much in the way
> of a simple script,
> so I decided to right a Perl script myself...
>
> Many weak security mechanisms rely on base64
> encoding scheme. IIS server
> is one such example, from the below example we see
> IIS Basic
> authenication in action on a GET request:
>
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: iis-server
> Authorization: Basic dGVzdDpwYXNzd29yZA==
>
> The authorization tag is encoded in Base64 and when
> feed into the decode
> script is cracked as shown below:
>
>
> perl decode_base64.pl dGVzdDpwYXNzd29yZA==
>
> Author: The Singapore Dragon -
> dragon_at_securityassoc.com
> Web: www.securityassoc.com
>
> Usage decode_base64.pl [encoded-text]
>
> The decoded data is: test:password
>
>
> There is also another script provided to encode data
> (encode_base64.pl).
>
> Enjoy and please send comments...
>
> The Singapore Dragon
> dragon_at_securityassoc.com
>
>
>
>
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Received on Nov 12 2002