[Tutor] Converting From Unicode to ASCII!!

[David Hutto]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Nevins Duret <duretn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 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

The linux forums might be better. Or you could use:

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=linux+lost+password+brute+force&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

>
> 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.
>
>
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> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.  So far, I’m reading up on
> this topic at this url:
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> http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html
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>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Nevins Duret
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>
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