Cracking Strings from URLs
[email protected] (Computer Nerd Kev)
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I've got long strings like this from URLs (percent-encoded characters have been decoded): SdADygkIiM8ED8ZK/ZfkxwbHEgOXnsgKzQcYtq2j3L1HN6OYvET8PwvO2gpCCv4Bp4vIGLwLFN3dDQABOjWT0gVI/EtBlNUIObwLFNnU90IK/gCs2QQzBzhEz8sNAAdBPpmM+T0KRgudx88HxzsFnpjGQs8PBp+fEAvQCgCZnsdKzQz+lpbIBPj7CQ== I believe they might be encrypted strings containing one or more known fields, probably including a known ten digit number (1409518286 in that case). They might also be hashes, but I think it's unlikely. Are there any simple Linux tools that can help identify and crack the algorithm by checking combinations of the known strings that it's likely to contain? Similar to what John The Ripper does for password hashes by checking against dictionaries of common passwords. Then I could write code to decrypt the other strings. I think the PHP scripts generating the strings were first written well over twenty years ago, so I'm guessing it's nothing all that sophisticated. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#