Giezr

I'm not one to grovel for hints, but here it goes. Do we need to work more on the meaning of your hint? Do we have all the info we need to get the pass? I'm guessing we are missing something, because the only pass related info so far was the hint. Is there anything more we can extract from the file or do we just need to look somewhere else. <rambling> I've been looking for all sorts of "ten under score" info and haven't got much. Does anyone know if it applies to computing in any sorta way? Also I was thinking maybe it was a sports term. I've tried golf, cricket, football (and soccer :) ), I'm leaning against a sports term. </rambling> Thanks, Giezr

Wow no shit!? Thats incredibly fast for a RAR cracker. My Advanced Archive Recovery which I uh, paid for, is doing good to get 40 a second. I will have to check that out. Giezr

I recently lost my job as a Network Admin and have no certs and no college. So job hunting sucks! Anywho, I'm reading the CompTIA +A book right now and plan to take the test soon. It's all fairly basic hardware stuff with a few old school terms and historic printer crap I wasn't familiar with. Oh and I had to print out Cleaning, Charging, Writing, Developing, Transferring, Fusing and put it on my wall to remember it. "Charlie Can Walk Dance and Talk French". Damn laser printers. I plan on getting a Network+ and eventually a Security+ as I've reviewed the material for those and they aren't that bad either. Also the right CompTIA Certs can work as electives towards M$ Certs (link) Giezr

WEP cracking is fun and easy to learn. Then you can build on it if you really want to keep cracking. Like learning different methods of WEP attacks, and then moving up to WPA/WPA2. Then once your on the network you can learn to 'pwn some boxen' I suppose. While I agree with Dred that you won't learn much of anything with kiddie tools, it doesn't mean they aren't fun. If you get a copy of BackTrack 3 you can use that crack a wireless network. Then use things such as MetaSploit to try and gain access to the machines. Or you can use the plethora of tools out there to sniff packets for info or one of my personal favorite kiddie things to do SideJacking. Have fun, Giezr

Just something interesting I stumbled upon in WinRAR and this might already be obvious, if so excuse the post. When making a RAR with WinRAR you have to click "Encrypt file names" when setting the password or the file names are visible when viewing the file in a hex editor. Example: Password protected but "Encrypt file names" not checked: Rar!.....s...........9t$.5. ..........1]..k9.3.. ...test.txt...i..*.....I....ep.p.{./....Y..#.TQ.G}.u.K...={.@.. Same file, same password, with "Encrypt file names" checked: Rar!.....s.........."....J......7&amp;c~..}....5i0.|.y.....B.j.....1M.....h..5..h. i9s...n;.9.Js..2.=.....S.x..."....J..n*......m3UZ....'.K.b.I2....-9.I.j&amp;.a3.....B+. .8.d...):8..A..+...8C2&gt;.......e&amp;..U...2... q&lt;...."....J..E..#...A.....\.s Read below for bullshit theories! In the first files PLuNK distributed we had to play with the header to get the file to work. I'm not really sure it's the header but that's what I'm gonna call it. Well I've made a ton of RARs now and they all start with: Rar!.....s Now the "clue" we have been provided is "ten under score". That Rar!.....s is the first 10 characters of any RAR file. Probably coincidence, and I'm probably headed down the wrong street here. </bs> Thanks, Giezr

Just a note, I tried a crappy "pirate words" wordslist that didn't work. And I've tried every variation of "ten under score" I can think of as the password with no success. Elcomsoft's software is pretty spot on. Sadly they don't support using the GPU to crack RAR files, yet. Giezr

Thanks! Something I'm not clear on, is the original file words-strongest-dog.dent still required for anything? Just wonderin, Giezr

Long time reader, first time poster. Hey :) Is Base64, according to MaxieZ's web Base64 decoder (link) it says: Which doesn't mean anything to me. But if you read the first letter of each line you get: And that's as far as I've got. Still can't open the RAR file. Using mainly WinRAR and Advanced Archive Recovery. Good Luck, Giezr