Hi,

Can anyone help me? I lost my password, but I still have the encrypted one... Is it possible to decrypt it?
I hope, some of you can...

how was your password encrypted?

usually, if your password was encrypted, the way that i know is to use the program that encrypted it to decrypt it, because only that program knows the mathematical encryption method used on the password.

another way? ...i'm not sure if JL knows something.

but, if you did this through a project, then place the project code that encrypted the pw, and maybe someone can create the backward algo to decrypt it.

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Been busy trying to take a second degree <--it's not working out...

Hi, it is actually rather serious to me. I know you were all thinking about hacking and others, but it is not that.

I had an account on neopets, that's a site about virtual pets (neopets.com) in the past, but I grow up and didn't went to that site nomore. Now, my sister grow up too, and she would play on that site too. So, I tried to find my password, but didn't find it... Now, that's not possible anymore, because you now have to fill in a correct email, and you can ask to email that password to you. In the past that way of handling was not possible.

If you can't help me, that's not bad, because I've created a new account for her. I just hoped that you could help me to find out that previous password, so she could use that account.

well... i'd like to help, but i don't see how...

but how did you know that you still have an encrypted password? isn't there a way for you to contact them about it? haven't you tried?

well... if contacting them won't work, there also is a chance that (if you said that it was a long time ago) the account may not be existing anymore... but i'm not scaring you or anything... i'm just saying what might be.

okidokie? sorry.

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Been busy trying to take a second degree <--it's not working out...

If it was a long time ago, it's probably gone.

Otherwise you'd have to contact them directly, most places (if possible) will ask you information that only the account creator will know or have, and send the info to a e-mail address (even if different than the original one on file). Of course not all places do this, many times they just tell you to create a new one (although if can prove you owned the old one, they'd delete it so you can use the same name).



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Everywhere's Local (classifieds, job postings, & more for everycity in the world - user entered)

Well, they work with cookies. How I did it, I don't know, but normally I store the username and password. I've looked now in the file, and saw I didn't store that password, but something different. What it is, I don't know, I don't know a lot about computers at all. I ask someone what it was, and he told me that it was probably an encryption... However I thought it was easy te decypt it again, so I asked my question here.

could anyone hack an account on neopets for me plzzzz, it was mine.

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11coolkats

could anyone hack an account on neopets for me plzzzz, it was mine.

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11coolkats

if it's yours, just contact them.

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Everywhere's Local (classifieds, job postings, & more for everycity in the world - user entered)

All passwords stored in cookies are encrypted as standard.

Websites use something called one way encryptions. That means that the process that encrypts the password is impossible to reverse. How it works is that they store the encrypted version of your password, and when you log in they encrypt the password you have submited and if it matches to the text that they have they let you in.

So.... that means I guess the site reads your cookies and just compares the encrypted password straight away. This is not good though as someone else can "steal" that cookie by you visiting their site and then they can get in.

Thats why for very secure sites they will only let you save your password in cookies if you have a static IP. This means they will know if it is someone else.

Am I making any sence? I hope so.

I don't see why the cookie doesn't still "work".

Edit - Just because all of us here are programmers, why do you assume that we are "hackers". I think that is very stereotypical of you. "Crackers", password crackers, should be frowned upon. Lastly, just because I have a lot of general knowledge about these things does not mean that I crack any passwords at all.

[Edited by stuartalex on 25-07-2005 at 10:18 PM GMT]

[Edited by stuartalex on 25-07-2005 at 10:22 PM GMT]

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There are only 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't.

I can help you....send me your username and encrypted password. I need the username because neopets passwords are also based of the username....So, if my password was the same as yours, encrypted they would be different.

BTW, im a hacker, not a script kiddie, not  a cracker, a hacker...So dont complain.

[Edited by Platinum Pyro on 20-08-2005 at 12:54 AM GMT]