Comments on: Decrypting Filezilla Passwords with PHP

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:27:27 +0000

Hey Martin, thanks for that, I’m sure others will find it useful.

By: Martin Haynes

Martin Haynes — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:30:04 +0000

Thanks, Ian. Big help. Here’s a simple java re-write that I created to recover my own lost login.

public class SimpleDecryptor {

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Encryption Key for FileZilla 2.x Passwords
final String key = “FILEZILLA1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”;

// encoded ascii character length
final int bytesize = 3;

// init with FileZilla encoded password
String pswd = “”;

// Find the offset position in the key for this pass
int offset = (pswd.length() / bytesize) % key.length();

String decode = “”;

//parse encrypted password in three character ascii-encoded chunks
for (int i = 0; i ” + decode);
}
}

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:25:18 +0000

@Roger - Hey thats great, glad it helped you.

By: Roger Heathcote

Roger Heathcote — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:03:28 +0000

Hi Ian, thanks for that. I’ve just written a post on my new blog about this issue and the new FileZilla 3. I have translated your code into python at the bottom of it…

http://movingtoubuntu.technicalbloke.co.uk/filezilla_ftp

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:36:14 +0000

Hey that’s awesome. Glad you like it. People might be interested to know a password recovery program also exists - its over at devpro.it/filezilla_pr.

By: Neal

Neal — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:28:01 +0000

Thanks.
A great help.
Just follwed your instructions and used Excel (not a php’er)
Saved me the $17 registration for the recovery program

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:39:29 +0000

No, not fake - just a funny 5 minutes (or more like 1 day) after activating a bad plugin, sorry!

By: Akash

Akash — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:05:18 +0000

Where is the code/sample/idea. I am unable to find anything. Is this fake?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:45:10 +0000

Yeah, I’d imagine that may be due to the lovely automatic formatting of wordpress.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:28:32 +0000

Ah, fixed it… problem with the “”’s!