NODE 3cb306aare: CRYPT
werner@mc.ab.comTue, 5 Apr 94 13:30:33 PDT
>Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 13:25:38 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Ryan Snyder--Consultant <cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu>
>I am trying to crack a textfile which has been encrypted with a program
>(for the IBM) called CRYPT. Can anyone help me with a method, a program
>which will break it, or a pointer to more information on how I might go
>about it? Thanks in advance.
This reminds me of cwb, I think, or else it's cbw (stands for codebreaker's
workbench), that is supposedly a tool for breking crypt-ed text. I tried
to make this tool work a couple of times, and never got it working. One
fellow I corresponded with said it worked for him right out of the box. I
eventually decided that it didn't work for me at least partly because it
was too dependent on the vt220 display. I never actually ran it on a
vt220.
Did anyone ever do any work to improve cbw (or cwb)? Everyone is always
saying what a joke crypt is, but I've never been able to crack it with
anything I got on the net. What do people really use to break (BSD)
crypted text?
tw
NODE f93afc54re: CRYPT
Ryan Snyder--Consultant <cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu>Tue, 5 Apr 94 16:01:52 PDT
On Tue, 5 Apr 1994 werner@mc.ab.com wrote:
> Did anyone ever do any work to improve cbw (or cwb)? Everyone is always
> saying what a joke crypt is, but I've never been able to crack it with
> anything I got on the net. What do people really use to break (BSD)
> crypted text?
If cracking a CRYPT file really is easy, could someone please explain to
me exactly how to go about doing so? Thanks.
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