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Re: AIM saved password storing


From: Bort Vern <bortvern () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:13:07 -0500

This is exactly the kind of shenanigans that worked on old AOL
clients, haven't looked at it in about 5 or so years though.  I
wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't just export the registry for the
AOL client, change the password, then export again and do a diff
between the files to find the encoded password.  However, I wouldn't
install the AOL client long enough to try...


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:00:09 -0500, ntx0f <ntx0f () seteuid com> wrote:
 
Anyone ever check out the way AIM stores passwords? The hash is in the
registry and reusable. I'm not sure there's a good way to save the passwords
but by copying the hash and making the proper registry keys you can use the
hash on any other computer. I had some code to do this that would retrieve
the hash and put it in a registry file or just a text file it could read
back but I dont feel like looking for it. Nothing too special just figured
I'd bring it up as I haven't seen this done anywhere. 


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