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well... yeah.... my question is... Can i view encryped chat log without Messenger plus! .... is there a little tool or something that can let us decrypt the encrpypted chat log without installing MSN Messenger Plus! ??

Nope, this isn't possible i'm afraid.

i mean like... can pathou make a little tool the seperates from messenger plus so that we can view our chat log in another that don't have messenger plus installed.. the password is still requires... just without the messenger plus @@ coz i was afraid what if someday messenger plus does no longer exist @@ e.. i mean only IF.... yeah...

Don't worry, that will be possible with the next version

ohoh... icic...  thanks.. ar.... sorry about the misspell your name.... Patchou ^^;

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Originally posted by Patchou
Don't worry, that will be possible with the next version (Smilie)

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That makes me very happy patch. That way I can just call w/e you are going to make and get the user to input the pass to unencrypt his files, this is for a plugin that I wanted to make btw .

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Originally posted by H2Oat0C32F
i mean like... can pathou make a little tool the seperates from messenger plus so that we can view our chat log in another that don't have messenger plus installed.. the password is still requires... just without the messenger plus @@ coz i was afraid what if someday messenger plus does no longer exist @@ e.. i mean only IF.... yeah...

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You don't neccesairly need to have Plus! fully installed to view encrypted logs. All you need is the msgplus.exe file.


And that wouldn't dissapear since you always can have a copy of that; it doesn't expire (heck I even have small programs/tools from 10 years ago which don't longer 'exist')

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Originally posted by ipab
That makes me very happy patch. That way I can just call w/e you are going to make and get the user to input the pass to unencrypt his files, this is for a plugin that I wanted to make btw

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You already can do that.

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Originally posted by Patchou
Don't worry, that will be possible with the next version

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How is that going to be different than what you already can do right now? I mean, if you are going to make an external program, isn't that the same than simply starting msgplus.exe with the appropiate parameter (except it maybe will be smaller than the 186Kb which the current msgplus.exe program is)?

Or do you mean something differently like including a plugin function which you also can parse a password to, to do the same (which is probably what ipab understood, dunno), which would be of course (though a security risk in some way as making brute forcers with this would be easy I imagine)

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So...

What has been asked can already be done (even in a plugin).

All it requires is that you have the program msgplus.exe; you don't need any other file like a DLL or whatever and you don't need anything to be installed.

Aka: You can have a copy of msgplus.exe and then fully uninstall Plus! and it will still work because the decrypting routine of Messenger Plus! is stand-alone, so to speak, inside msgplus.exe; it doesn't depend on anything.

All you need to do is start msgplus.exe with the appropiate parameter like so:

msgplus.exe /log:encrypted_logfile

eg: msgplus.exe /log:events.ple

PS: don't forget to use use quotes (") when your filename is a long filename with spaces!
eg: "c:\special tools\msgplus.exe" /log:"c:\special logs\encrypted events jan 2005.ple"

Important: distributing only msgplus.exe is not allowed. But for your own use you can of course make a copy of that file and use it as described above.

umm... ic... thx... keke...

I do have a small tool which will decrypt and encrypt log files, but until i get the ok from Patchou im not releasing it

solus, your thread has been moved back...

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=54794