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Fernando Ariel Gont wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:
TT> Here's the Award BIOS password checksum algorithm: (the checksum
TT> is stored at CMOS locations 1Ch-1Dh)
FAG> And... how is the password encrypted?
FAG> I mean, how could I decrypt it?
The algorithm used is one-way so you can't simply decrypt the password and
expect to get the original password again. You can, however, generate letter
sequences that match the checksum, but they will most likely not look like
the original password at all.
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs@village.uunet.be
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