RE: Brutus issue

From: Isaac Van Name (ivanname@southerlandsleep.com)
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 14:05:11 EST


Thank you to all of the people who have corrected me about Base 64... I did
the necessary research to catch up with everyone else on that one. As for
my previous post, I apologize for the degrading tone that my reply had. I
would also encourage you to absorb the included documentation with your
tools and do lots of independent testing and research with them. I would
feel more comfortable as a potential client if I felt like you had a strong
grasp of the tasks you set out to perform on my network. Just my two cents
from that standpoint...

Isaac Van Name
Systems Administrator

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Original> -----Original Message-----
Original> From: listbounce@securityfocus.com
[mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com]
Original> On Behalf Of Tonnerre Lombard
Original> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:03 AM
Original> To: Isaac Van Name
Original> Cc: 'Juan B'; pen-test@securityfocus.com
Original> Subject: RE: Brutus issue
Original>
Original> Salut,
Original>
Original> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 10:46 -0600, Isaac Van Name wrote:
Original> > Well, Base 64 is an encryption method...
Original>
Original> No, base64 is an encoding variant which reduces the number of bits
per
Original> byte transferred to 6. It was used to prevent stuff from being
broken by
Original> being posted to Usenet.
Original>
Original> There is no key and no randomization, you just plainly shove off
two
Original> bits into the next byte and pad up with =. Thus, no encryption at
all.
Original>
Original> Tonnerre
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