11/12/10

password recovery from stash file

----------------unstash.pl begin ------------------------
use strict;

die "Usage: $0 <stash file>\n" if $#ARGV != 0;

my $file=$ARGV[0];
open(F,$file) || die "Can't open $file: $!";

my $stash;
read F,$stash,1024;

my @unstash=map { $_^0xf5 } unpack("C*",$stash);

foreach my $c (@unstash) {
    last if $c eq 0;
    printf "%c",$c;
}
printf "\n";
---------------------unstash.pl end-----------------

perl unstash.pl key.sth
where key.sth is the stash file

3 comments:

dodger said...

Thanks!!
Very useful for me!

jzomer said...

I explained it and created a Java version of this (Java is always available. Perl not)

http://strelitzia.net/wp/blog/2009/03/08/unstash-in-java/

Arjun Kalyan said...

Thanks !!!!

Superb. Its working for me.....