Windows 95 encryption shell extension
Bruce Murphy
packrat at ratbox.rattus.uwa.edu.au
Tue Feb 20 05:20:11 PST 1996
In message <01BAFEAE.63BB64E0 at loki>,
Brian Gorka wrote:
> On Monday, February 19, 1996 4:32 AM, Andy Brown[SMTP:a.brown at nexor.co.uk]
> wrote:
> >http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/win32/codedrag/codedrag.htm
> >
> >Haven't tried it myself since I don't use Windows 95, just thought
> >I'd report what I saw.
> >
>
> I downloaded this, AND installed it. It displays your password right on
> the screen!!! No *s, no blind typing. Anyone looking over ytour shoulder
> can see what you type as your passphrase! Come on.
>
Aha! but what you didn't know was that it was FV's card number
sniffer, and their obviously competent programmer needed another four
weeks to get the '*'s to come up...
One has to wonder about the security of binaries random people put up
especially for closed systems such as Win96 don't you?
--
Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Admin)
Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm.
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