Hello all,
Don't know if I'll be bashed on this forum for doing this, but I will assure you I have the best intentions and simply want to apply a real world problem and how to go about solving it using python3.1. Here is my predicament. A good friend of mine locked herself out of her computer and forgot her password. I pretty much scoured the internet as a resource only to hit a brick wall. I tried using ophcrack version 2.3.1 in order to obtain the password and felt completely at home being that it was Linux, but then towards the end it failed and the output of this file which seems to contain the Users and passwords but in Unicode format: Administrator:500::31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c 0::: Guest:501::31d6cfe0d16ae931b73c59d7e0c089c0::: SUPPORT_388945a0:1002::881037e0b6909b04b6900f7c806 dca6e::: HelpAssistant:1004:b209ce7e3ff7aea1131906e9f5df481 9:d83f663c50bcd5815ccb94f9e38a9a4b::: Beverly:1005:00006395b1acd69aaad3b435b51404ee:992a c78ffb08204c592c6e47b916f85d::: And it didn't complete as a result of this error message: Tables found: /mnt/hdc/tables/xp_free_small Found one partition that contains hashes: /mnt/hda1/WINDOWS/system32/config Starting Ophcrack QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open failed /home/tux/launch.sh: line 100: 1044 Killed ABLES_INLINE -w $FOUND/ -n $numcpu -o /tmp/ophcrack.txt $opts Press a key to exit:: Now , I remember reading somewhere that Python is very good for converting Unicode data into ASCII and admittedly know nothing about this: Is there a work around in Python where I can simply import the file like and convert it to readable string using A for loop. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. So far, I'm reading up on this topic at this url: http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html Best Regards, Nevins Duret
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