[Alpine-info] Examining contents of alpine's passfile?

[Mark Dixon via Alpine-info]

Hi Jason,

Thanks, that's a big help!

Best,

Mark

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024, jason-alpine-info at shalott.net wrote:


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>>  I'd like to take a look at the credentials from my alpine's passfile.

>>  Some likely-looking openssl foo returned jibberish:

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>>  openssl smime -decrypt -inform pem -in <filename> -inkey

>>  .alpine-smime/.pwd/MasterPassword.key

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>>  Is there a simple way to examine the contents please, or do I need to

>>  start looking at the source code?

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> The passfile is obfuscated (a throw-back to the days before strong crypto

> was available), and there is no standalone utility to de-obfuscate it.

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> The source is in alpine/imap.c, in xlate_in() and xlate_out().

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> Once, when I had a similar need, I took those routines and dropped them

> more-or-less verbatim into perl, and it worked as expected.  YMMV...

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> https://pastebin.com/JVVRf2gy

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> -Jason

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