Get password out of modpicker

Matryx · #1 August 24th, 2002, 01:50 AM

Sorry Gorgo, you'll have to get pbw to sort it out for you.
For reasons that I hope should be obvious I'm not going to make a password decrypter or detail how to decode them.

dumbluck · #2 August 28th, 2002, 10:23 AM

*sigh* The things you do when you're bored.
I figured out that extracting the passwords shouldn't be that hard, allowing that a couple of assumptions are true... Not that it wouldn't gain a person much to be able to extract them; they are your passwords after all. You aren't learning someone else's password...

Phoenix-D · #3 August 29th, 2002, 12:55 AM

"You aren't learning someone else's password..."

The game files sent by PBW can be used to play ANY player's turn.

Phoenix-D

Fyron · #4 August 29th, 2002, 01:45 AM

But you can't load other people's passwords into the Mod Launcher, unless you know them already.

Matryx · #5 August 30th, 2002, 02:03 AM

Phoenix-D: Yes, that is true, gamefiles can be used to play other people's turns.
But he is correct, you wouldn't be learning other people's passwords.
Don't forget that you'd need their launcher.ini to get their passwords into your modlauncher.
Seems like quite a bit of effort just to take their turn

I still won't detail how to decrypt them for those people working on multiple-user machines with unscrupulous friends/siblings

Purna · #6 August 30th, 2002, 06:29 AM

It looks like a simple rotation cypher. Just subtract 100 from each character.