PWL files

Chris Rowley bc192 at freenet.carleton.ca
Tue Dec 29 20:52:08 PST 1998



> > I've been trying to figure out the method of encryption for OSR2 Win95 and
> > Win98 *.pwl files and I was hoping someone had some details about the
> > method used. [...] Does anyone have it figured out?
>
> I think Peter Gutmann and someone else figured it out sometime ago.

Peter Gutmann figured out the old system. In reaction the system was
changed by the OSR2 patch and in all further releases of Windows. What
exactly it was changed to is the question.

Chris.






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