Encryption/Decryption Newbie

Hi,

Can someone tell me what this is:

†ûì7]DœúÆ^(涊`T”{6uß±wôCϯ±34ay[’µ|*ñ|™
˜ýOJ”l>`&_•øЉ$…gÆo'DÒîÏeíÿÇF¡xíé-

It's some sort of encrypted text, it's obviously not HEX...
Is it possible to decrypt this?

Just curious!

Thanks,

cGEEK

• Attempt 1: "‡ùï3XB›òÏT#긅pE†h"
  cÈ©nî_Ò±®CZ·“[,ÛWµ,5·Í#}y YWf¯Ãì´º'‡-d —¨ˆ-¤µL‹ï7Fq¿ºy"
• Attempt 2: "„ÿê?WH’êÔJ>þ ª”@v°]5YñEÀ%{õ“sv%?Øù2zW¥*Á[GƝp+,üRV-ᎨóXûçDë¡ÌXbAõk‘_Ü=涂IO…"
• Attempt 3: "†úî5_G˜þÂ[.ూh\q<~Ó½{ùMÁ ¡#$pkI€¦h>äj€å
  VPŽv%|:CˆæΗ;¥GæNfðÍëAÉÚ!á`†P>ÄÃ"
• Attempt 4: "†úî5_G˜þÂ[.ూh\q<~Ó½{ùMÁ ¡#$pkI€¦h>äj€å
  VPŽv%|:CˆæΗ;¥GæNfðÍëAÉÚ!á`†P>ÄÃ"
• Attempt 5: "†úî5_G˜þÂ[.ూh\q<~Ó½{ùMÁ ¡#$pkI€¦h>äj€å
  VPŽv%|:CˆæΗ;¥GæNfðÍëAÉÚ!á`†P>ÄÃ"

Ofcourse not... duh... Could you be more specific? You know who/what encrypted it? What are we looking for in the data? Where dit you get it from and what possible keys could've been used? Any clue on what encryption software / algorithm used?
Or did you rip it from an .exe file or so? it could be anything. Just data. And ofcourse it's not hex... But if you'd like it displayed in hex, then here you go:

"†ûì7]DœúÆ^(涊`T”{6uß±wôCϯ±34ay[’µ|*ñ|™
˜ýOJ”l>`&_•øЉ$…gÆo'DÒîÏeíÿÇF¡x íé-"

translated to hex is:


86 FB EC 37 5D 44 9C FA C6 5E 28 E6
13 B6 00 60 54 94 7B 36 1F 75 DF B1
77 F4 13 43 CF AF B1 33 34 61 79 5B
92 B5 7C 00 05 F1 7C 99 01 1B 98 FD
12 4F 00 94 6C 3E 60 26 5F 95 F8 D0
89 24 85 67 C6 6F 27 44 D2 EE CF 65
ED FF 07 C7 46 A1 78 16 20 ED E9 2D


or in decimal:

134 251 236 055 093 068 156 250 198 094 040 230 019 182 138 096 084 148 123 054 031 117 223 177 119 244 019 067 207 175 177 051 052 097 121 091 146 181 124 042 005 241 124 153 001 027 152 253 018 079 074 148 108 062 096 038 095 149 248 208 137 036 133 103 198 111 039 068 210 238 207 101 237 255 007 199 070 161 120 022 032 237 233 045

you'd like it binary? same data:


10000110 11111011 11101100 00110111 01011101 01000100
10011100 11111010 11000110 01011110 00101000 11100110
00010011 10110110 10001010 01100000 01010100 10010100
01111011 00110110 00011111 01110101 11011111 10110001
01110111 11110100 00010011 01000011 11001111 10101111
10110001 00110011 00110100 01100001 01111001 01011011
10010010 10110101 01111100 00101010 00000101 11110001
01111100 10011001 00000001 00011011 10011000 11111101
00010010 01001111 01001010 10010100 01101100 00111110
01100000 00100110 01011111 10010101 11111000 11010000
10001001 00100100 10000101 01100111 11000110 01101111
00100111 01000100 11010010 11101110 11001111 01100101
11101101 11111111 00000111 11000111 01000110 10100001
01111000 00010110 00100000 11101101 11101001 00101101


Can you be MORE specific?

Quote:

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Life would be easier if I had the sourcecode...

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I think life would be easier if you just relaxed...

It was just a question!

Thank you for your reply.

What kind of data is it?

life would be easier if you told us where you got that from?

My supervisor gave me an Access database that is protected and wants me to figure out how to open it from VB.

When you try to open it, it generates Runtime Error
'3033', "You don't have the necessary permissions to
use the database.mdb object.

I found a program on the web that supposedly will crack
the password. I ran that program, and that mess of
jumbled text is what was returned.

I went into VB and tried to open the database from there with that password and was given a different error message, Runtime Error '3031', Not a valid password.

I was curious as to whether the encrypted text is
"crackable" or not.

There. Feel better?

Do u know the length of the password ?

===Code Cracking Tutorial===

If you have a document or message that is encrypted by simply replacing letters with a symbol:

A = Z
B = Y
C = X
D = W
etc..

you can then replace the most occuring letter or symbol in the text with the most re-occuring letter in the alphabet, 'e' and 't' is the next most occuring, and so on.

But..

Because this is encrypted differently then well, um, convert that code to its ascii value then try to subtract like 60 from that value and then turn the ascii back to chars and see if you get anything. you could make a simple prog that uses a richtbox that has that the text in, 'txtIn' another 'txtOut' and a third 'txtDigit' then you make the program work through the text and turning each letter to its ascii and then add/subtract the
cint(txtDigit) and then change it back to chars and see what you get. To ultimately crack it you need some more clues.

I figured more information was needed
about how the security was implemented on the
.MDB file. It 's not from Access, that's for sure.

Anyhow, it was worth a shot!

Thanks for the insight PsyVision.

1 last thing is to try altavista search for Access Password + Cracking or something like that to see if you can find any progs.

Which version of Access do you use?

See this site for a password cracker: http://www.soft4you.com/mso/

[Edited by oetje on 10-07-2000 at 04:03 AM]