Subject:      Re: MS Access 2.0
From:         adam@homeport.org (Adam Shostack)
Date:         1998/06/23
Message-ID:   <199806231244.IAA04637@homeport.org>
Newsgroups:   ailab.coderpunks
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        Part of doing research is to ensure you're not re-inventing
the wheel before you start doing hard work.  I'm perfectly happy to
have Mike ask questions about this stuff; the answers are often
enlightening to the rest of us.

   Anyway, Access97 passwords are stored in the 13 bytes from offset
0x42 in a .mdb file.  Do a bitwise XOR with 0x86, 0xFB, 0xEC, 0x37,
0x5D, 0x44, 0x9C, 0xFA, 0xC6, 0x5E, 0x28, 0xE6, 0x13 to recover the
plaintext.  I think that if the first byte is 0x86, the password is
not checked.

Adam