Anybody got any Information About Skype Password DEcrypter

Apocalypse · **Joined:** 04 Jun 2009 07:38 **Posts:** 8

hello mr. Aluigi

have u any idea for decrypt Skype

Thank you.

counterstrikewi · **Joined:** 19 Apr 2009 23:01 **Posts:** 13

The location of the password hash is here:

C:\Documents and Settings\Danny\Application Data\Skype\USERNAME\config.xml

"Skype produces a hash of the user password and uses that hash to authenticate/store the login info locally (hash is transferred over the secure channel to authenticate).

As Fabrice Desclaux and Kostya Kortchinsky tell us in their paper, Skype uses MD5 hash of ???username\nskyper\npassword??? to authenticate. The same hash is stored in the config.xml file (C:???Documents and settings??? Windows Username ??? Application data ??? Skype ??? SkypeUsername ??? config.xml). In fact, this MD5 hash is then encrypted using AES and SHA-1 before being stored in the config.xml."

http://blog.reactive-software.com/skype ... -recovery/

Sethioz · **Posted:** 29 Jul 2009 16:07

this http://blog.reactive-software.com/skype ... -recovery/ sounds total bs to me.
if im right now, then it is not really encrypted, it is a hash algorithm, which cannot be 'decrypted' at all. only way is to make it collide with a right password (there maybe several right ones that generate same MD5 hash) and skype also uses double algorithms. only way is to bruteforce it, which is not really decrypting, decrypting is something that is done instantly if im correct about terms.

so if you want to recover stored skype password, then i don't think its even possible. unless you are able to get a pure MD5 hash (im not sure how exactly skype works), then you can hit it with rainbow tables or good wordlists, but again its cracking, not decrypting.

NOTE - i maybe wrong somewhere, cuz i have not done any research on skype on my own.

Luigi Auriemma

Anybody got any Information About Skype Password DEcrypter