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Oct23

Written by:R Teachout
10/23/2007 10:06 AM 

If you have access to your Imail registry, and need to decrypt the hash passwords in order to convert to another (better) mail software, here's what you would need to know....

(This was passed onto me by a friend - Thanks!!!)

Here's an example of how to decrypt the hash to

username: admin  (used as example for this blog)
encrypted-password from registry: D1 C5 E0 DC E5 91 DC D1

the hex values of the username (admin) are: 61 64 6D 69 6E

Hence to decrypt the encrypted password, you would repeat the hex of the username until the length of the hash is matched, subtract that hex from the encrypted-password hash hex, and then convert the resulting hash/hex to ascii, and voila, you have your decrypted password:

    D1 C5 E0 DC E5 91 DC D1  (password hash from registry)
(-) 61  64 6D 69  6E 61 64  6D  (adminadm)
=  70  61 73 73  77  30 72  64  (result in hex)
=   p   a   s   s   w    0   r    d   (result in ascii)

Voila.. that was the password that I set!

This should hopefully help others who are trying to do an imail conversion.

Note:  This works with Imail Version 8.13, and may or may not work with other versions, but I suspect it will.

THIS SHOULD ONLY BE USED BY SYSADMINS TRYING TO USE THIS INFORMATION FOR CONVERSION PURPOSES!  DON'T ABUSE THIS INFORMATION.

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