Have you ever looked at a .rdp file (its just a text file) and observed the password entry? It looks something like this:

password
51:b:01000000D08C9DDF0115D1118C7A00C04FC297EB0100000052A9E191EA75A948B359790578C9371A
0000000008000000700073007700000003660000A8000000100000000A1DCCD2E50775CA25EC3857164B34DC000000
0004800000A000000010000000FCE1A645B9B61AA450946BB6F955058108020000D83591CA47562D6DDAA689F050
AE145039EBE22E00D1D3AEAA98373C7B63C3E8E7149072DF989EA43EFCE20513AD3D27B11BE7F17066A688E1D
CE828AF85460AAC327B38E90776DB962888E4393D19637578984B19A187AAD95F6D2726ADE7DD315FF56C15FF
5B3031014EDDCC3C24D1B81779AFDB006EE575F5BEFB8D2D2138D9D9D642BBB251CC5ED7226968764856EC66
0A646BACE748A13D6002A9A537AA70710615650B9387EED66DE28BD57B304BBDD7B581B943DA628EB0289E30
A8BA784B76F7885BECCAB4FEF7820E97EE3C6E036EEAF6EAA669288DF2FCACC9BEC045C907EBBDE87AFB8C
C6B07A600BD63AC891B61D95C2265DD9FD5E635D61BFBF5EDC28311375066611C610FB533D64515B643C82F57
D9B183B05C156D91BC0974D38E546022B139E82452E6F1EDF76E52F732C3904E5E433F8F3D488DB0698427DBB07
91A9F207F8CB6654CB8410BAF4A59C4F9E821E589ABC1E6E6E1D432181B690408F6884FE1007895A4D26D4A5A2
C7458EE747DA35D44AC9FB08AB5477EA3E7CCDB3E37EE20FAFD0D0CF9584E420598B7003B347943AC28048F45
E0FD21AD08148FFADCE0E7877219259A7BE722FFAE845A429BA2CF0A71F2D19EA7495530FABDB5106E8D404A3
8A7E6394C38457640EA7398C5D55F0C4D342CC6A39C77E10A2A5145AEA40B14F5C7C3760334D83C9BE748383FA
DE231248537353817D51F7B44F61B406ABC61400000071C354139F458B02D978015F785B97F7F6B307380

What it the world does that mean you may ask? Well, this is a 1329 byte encryption of the user’s password. If you have ever wanted to create your own .rdp files, you would either need to leave the password field blank, or type in the password and save it manually - that is until now. Remko Weijnen has written a cool article about how these password are created. He has also created a cool tool to encrypt and decrypt passwords. It’s a pretty interesting read.

Continue at source…

Technorati : RDP, Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, decryption, encryption
Del.icio.us : RDP, Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, decryption, encryption
Ice Rocket : RDP, Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, decryption, encryption