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		coldpie on Nov 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco t... > I sat down for the afternoon with a pen and paper and somehow managed to decode the password system Would love to hear more about this, if you have any recollection :)

qingcharles on Nov 9, 2024 [–]

I'd love to know how I did it. There must have been a certain element of luck. I actually found the decompiled routine for the password code a couple of years ago and, IIRC, it was surprisingly more sophisticated than my teenage brain would have suspected.

https://eccothedolphin.online/ecco-password-generator/

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