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May 29, 2007
Dreamweaver Site Password Decryption
I was monkeying around with Visual Studio this weekend, trying to pick up some C#, and I built this little app. It is used to strip the lousy decryption from passwords in Dreamweaver .ste files. It's handy if you, like me, have found yourself saving an FTP password in Dreamweaver only to forget it a couple years later.
Yes, you can do lousy things with this tool if you have access to another person's Dreamweaver install, but the encryption is weak enough to where you shouldn't consider it protected anyway. Please only use this tool for your own sites and your own passwords.
To use the tool, open Dreamweaver and go to Site / Manage Sites. Click the site you want and press Export. Open the exported .ste file in Notepad and grab the alphanumeric string in the pw="" parameter. Open DreamPass, paste in the string and you'll get your password out.
Note that I didn't figure this out on my own – I used information from Bart Grantham's site for the hard part.
If you want a sample to play with, this is what the encrypted password looks like: 636967666F796E387B
Posted by Lee Clontz at May 29, 2007 2:03 PM