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sending password by email
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hey all,
a friend of mine forgot his password. (60ft_SLOPESTYLE) is there a possibility to send it by email?
thx alot
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Absolutely not. The security risk is far too great.
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they can. message nopoles
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I got the same problem and e-mailed chris o connell but he said they couldnt retrieve it(see thread I just created)
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No we can't retrieve a password, but we can reset it.
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Not that resetting it isn't good enough, but just because I'm interested...how could you not be able to retrieve it? Every encryption algorithm has a decryption algorithm. When I login, even if it just re-encrypts my password and compares the two encrypted ones, you just do the opposite of the encyrption and whamo, it's decrypted.
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dont forget your password lesson learned daaaaaaamn
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click on the thing that says 'save password' next time you log in
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sure, but the standard encryption in most languages doesnt offer a simple decryption function. I know for example in PHP the most effective form is md5() and as fara s I'm aware there isnt a function to decrypt it. Corrcet me if I'm worng tho.
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We don't use an encryption algorithm for passwords, we use a hash (yes you read right).
A hash is a unique number that represents a string of characters. So we take your password and hash it using MD5. It basically gives us a unique key that identifies your password.
When you login to NS we MD5 the password that is supplied and compare it against the MD5 hash that's in the database. If the hashs match then the original strings were the same, thus a matching password.
Hash functions have no 'decryption' method. One way only.
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give me 4 or 5 months and a fast computer and i'll brute force it.
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Cool.
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Mmmm, totally forgot about hash functions. It's good to be out of school. :)
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good luck with the brute force thing, it really depends on the password and the amount of possible passwords in your wordlist, if the password has some caps and some no caps OR has characters AND numbers then your completly screwed, and if it has sumthing to do with the person/their family chances are that the brute force wordlist wont have the password
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^unless you make a code that just tries random combinations
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^ well that's what brute force is, but jacktheripper was referring to a dictionary attack that most programs do before brute forcing. I agree. it will take so long and it is basically useless. i was mostly joking when i made that comment.
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thats good to know
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learned about hashes last year in comp sci, i feel smart!
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don't know jack about hashes, feel useless.
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i think he can rememember it again. He is a little dumb...
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