This here seems to be the most adequate forum with tricks on Lotus Notes. I work at a Service Desk and i have a customer, who apparently can't be helped by anyone from any of our support teams...:S He has Archives, that he has created with local encryption and has been using them for the past 8 years. He created them with his initial ID file. About 2 weeks ago he had called one of my agents, because he had forgotten his ID File password. The agent tried to reconfigure the whole thing by editing the notes.ini file and tried to send the user his initial ID File from the Database. Strangely enough, the ID File was not there, apparently his original ID File came from an older database, that is not used anymore and noone knows what it was or who can look into it. So our 2nd level team dispatched to 3rd level and 3rd level created a new ID File. User was then able to access everything but his archives (obviously). We tried looking for the old ID file, so we can try cracking it, on his backups, but to no avail. I really want to help this guy even though it's not my responsibility anymore. Do any of you know a way to crack an archive's local encryption? Any help will be appreciated.

Sia

I have a problem with a Lotus 6.5 archive. I copied it unfortunately in an encrypted file and then I have reinstalled my Windows. In this way I have lost my encryption key and now I cannot open my archive anymore. Is it a way to recover my archive?

Thank you!

Hope it works for you.

I did exactly what u are suggesting i.e. set 00 in the specified range but still poping local access authorisation access message... can't get in!!!

Any ideas why?

Thanx

Had to use this today... got myself with the Enforce Consistent ACL setting. Doh!

Open up the mailfile template, add a db queryopen that re-populates the ACL with whatever. Refresh the design of the mailfile. Next time the user opens his mailfile he will unknowingly grant you access.

This is common Admin practise and isn't hacking exactly but might be construed as invasion of personal space. What's the diffrence ?

Bill - my understanding is that only object code is available in an R5 or R6 database with a hidden design. Although you can hack your way in with an API call, the source code is not available. This was a change from 4.6 where if you managed to remove the hide design flag you could see the source code.

As a Domino software developer, I have to state that .nsf files *do* contain product source. Should you *only* be relying on the "hide design", as you point out, your stuffed.

Most script libraries and agents store the LS source in the document for that design object. So its very easy once you've globally recompiled (in a template copy of your Db) to destroy this field, thus preventing some unscrupulous b*st*rd stealing your hard-worked private source..

Well - its what we do. Cynical ? Yes. Oh - and *do* make frequent backups...

---* Bill

-rich

I appreciate the sentiment of that argument. The thing that occurs to me, though, is: if we can ferret out which address to mangle with a hex editor... how could the product ever be made immune against such manipulation?

Having asked the question... an answer is now coming to mind. Anybody remember what the 8th bit is for in TTY 7 bit ? :-)

P.S: Jake, i've used the same method as described by mt69clp. By the way, found in the Lotus Developer Domain.

My computer crashed 6 months ago and i was running R6 and i only managed to make a copy of my 3 year old mail file.

Being R6 it locked me out of the database (no id file backedup, never needed to before)

HOPEFULLY this may help me !