_________SWAT MAGAZINE ISSUE TWENTY FIVE JANUARY 2000 __________
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 /	                X-stream Password info                      \
/                       By -=The Firestarter=-                       \
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Well while wasteing hours of my life trying to connect to x-streams
0800 number i decided to see if i could tweak it a little so that it
would redial up the very second that it disconnected from the net,
either from a busy tone or whatever. Anyway i opened up regedit to
sneek a look at the x-stream settings and almost pissed myself
laughing over the amazingly elite encryption algorithm which it uses.

Ok if you thought that M$ was bad for storing passwords, your gonna
love this (well ok it's not that interesting but what the hell, i
need to fill in space or this article will look pathetic). Anyway
in the path: 
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\X-Stream
there is a number of settings for X-stream, they look like this:
(actual registary export): 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\X-Stream]
"ProgramPath"="C:\\Program Files\\X-Stream3_6"
"CurrentCountry"="United Kingdom"
"CurrentCountryTo"="United Kingdom"
"ModemName"="Sportster Voice 33.6 (UK) Internal"
"ModemType"="modem"
"AreaCode"=""
"InternationalPrefix"=""
"PhoneNumber"="0800 988 9999"
"PhoneNumberID"=dword:00000003
"ModifyNumber"=dword:00000000
"CallingCard"=dword:00000000
"CallingCardNumber"=""
"RotaryDialing"=dword:00000000
"ISPName"="0800 Free Calling"
"IsVirtual"=dword:00000000
"LoginName"="ferret@x-steam.co.uk"
"Password"="gvctxsglmph"
"SavePassword"=dword:00000001
"RasName"="X-Stream"

Ok now i knew the password for the account in question so i decided to
test the amazing encryption powers of X-stream, heh, what did i have
to do? simply rotate the letters back by 5 and i had the password.
So if i take g and count back 5 letters it becomes c, v becomes r 
and so on, counting all the way though it gvctxsglmph will decipher
to cryptochild. So hows that for amazing password protection?

Oh well i hope that this pointless article will hope those of you
who forget passwords on a regular basis and then dread the day when
you acidentally delete it from the box and have to re-type it.

Oh yeah, and if you want to get rid of the banner on the screen (not
the thin one, but the "large" banner), head over to www.killernet.org
and download @guard, turn on the "block ads" feature and away you go!