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to: FERNANDO ARIEL GONT
from: TOM TORFS
date: 1998-02-22 16:48:00
subject: Cmos password

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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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