RE: [Passwordsafe-users] Decrypting .dat files

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

Hi,

The data file formats are documented in the files notes.txt and =
formatV2.txt
that are part of the source distribution.

	Rony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pas...@li...=20
> [mailto:pas...@li...] On=20
> Behalf Of Dickerson, Cliff
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:28 PM
> To: 'ro...@us...'
> Cc: pas...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Passwordsafe-users] Decrypting .dat files
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> Rony,
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> Thanks for the information!
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> Is there somewhere I can find the differences between 1.9 and=20
> 2.0 dat file formats?
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> -cliff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rony Shapiro [mailto:ro...@gm...]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:20 AM
> To: 'Schreck, Juergen'; 'Dickerson, Cliff'
> Cc: pas...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Passwordsafe-users] Decrypting .dat files
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> Hi,
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> Indeed PasswordSafe does not support the command-line decryption of an
> entire password database. Two points, though:
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> 1. The source distribution contains a Perl script=20
> (pwsafe-decode.pl) that
> can parse and decrypt 1.9 databases - it should be=20
> straightforward to modify
> to support the 2.0 file format. If anyone does so, I'd be=20
> glad to publish
> it.
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> 2. PasswordSafe can be used via command line to encrypt and decrypt
> arbitrary files (NOT password databases). "Pwsafe -e foo.txt"=20
> will prompt
> for a password, and use it to encrypt foo.txt into=20
> foo.txt.PSF. "Pwsafe -d
> foo.txt.PSF" will prompt for the password, and, if correct,=20
> decrypt the
> file. This is an undocumented vestige of the original version.
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> Hope this helps,
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> 		Rony
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pas...@li...=20
> > [mailto:pas...@li...] On=20
> > Behalf Of Schreck, Juergen
> > 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=20
> be against all
> > purposes of pwsafe. If it would be so easy to decrypt the=20
> database you
> could
> > hold your passwords in a plain textfile, too.
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> > Regards,
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> > J=FCrgen Schreck
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dickerson, Cliff [mailto:Cli...@la...]=20
> > 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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