Filter-Decrypt

[sleuth]

Hello,

My host has this suckie admin panel but the good thing is it's written in perl, they put it right into your cgi-bin so you can look at it and everything. They used filter-decrypt on it and to tell you the truth I think the guy who made doesn't work for them anymore because it's soo old and they have so many problems with it. Anyway, I need to decode this thing somehow so I can do a re-design on it and make their file admin section better, plus I'd love to learn how to create pop accounts on the fly since I also have made email scripts before, having to create pop accounts through the admin panel just to get someone's email up and running really makes me feel stupid, especially when these are customers waiting for me to get the notification of the new user and add the pop account.

So the bottom line is I need to get this source code, lol. Any ideas? Should I open up the filter decrypt module? Or is it a public key system with that module?

Thanks,

Tony

 

[sophisticate]

I'm afraid this endeavour is really, really difficult.. probably impossible. The reason is that there is no defined encryption scheme for the filter -- the administrator can arbitrarily implement anything. You could be dealing with triple DES or a simple substitution. The only thing I can think of that would help you is the source code of the Filter:ecrypt your administrator has. But I can't imagine an admin that would leave that open.

At least, this is what I read...

brendanc@icehouse.net

 

[sleuth]

Yea, I can get the filter decrypt module from the server, it's all open to the people who have space on the server.

Thanks for the tip Mate,

Tony

PS. Since I got flagged again, I've got a different signature "If you had a Linux box with a Pentium II chip begin compiling a perl program at 12:00 pm in Atlanta and you had a Windows 98 box running on an Athlon 4 Processor start compiling a perl program at 12:30 pm in Chicago which one would finish first?

Answer: I can't even get my windows box to shutdown properly, I don't know about compiling.&q