RE: [Passwordsafe-users] Decrypting .dat files

[Rony S. <ro...@gm...>]

Hi,

Indeed PasswordSafe does not support the command-line decryption of an
entire password database. Two points, though:

1. The source distribution contains a Perl script (pwsafe-decode.pl) =
that
can parse and decrypt 1.9 databases - it should be straightforward to =
modify
to support the 2.0 file format. If anyone does so, I'd be glad to =
publish
it.

2. PasswordSafe can be used via command line to encrypt and decrypt
arbitrary files (NOT password databases). "Pwsafe -e foo.txt" will =
prompt
for a password, and use it to encrypt foo.txt into foo.txt.PSF. "Pwsafe =
-d
foo.txt.PSF" will prompt for the password, and, if correct, decrypt the
file. This is an undocumented vestige of the original version.

Hope this helps,

		Rony

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> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:13 AM
> To: 'Dickerson, Cliff'; 'pas...@li...'
> Subject: RE: [Passwordsafe-users] Decrypting .dat files
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> I will hope, that this will never work. I think this would be against =
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> purposes of pwsafe. If it would be so easy to decrypt the database you
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> hold your passwords in a plain textfile, too.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:24 PM
> To: 'pas...@li...'
> Subject: [Passwordsafe-users] Decrypting .dat files
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> Hi,
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> I have version 2.06, does anyone know if/how to decrypt the=20
> .dat file from
> the command line with a tool like OpenSSL?
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> I've tried a with and without a salt.
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> with salt I get "bad magic number"
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> without salt I get "bad decrypt"
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks much.
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