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There’s a (Windows) program I use that stores it’s data in SQLite files… password protected SQLite files… and I’d really like to take a look inside of them. I’ve tried looking for the password as an embedded text string, I’ve tried decompiling the .Net code (with Reflector – but it’s obfuscated), and I’ve tried attaching a debugger and stepping through tons of ASM code, but still haven’t been able to find the password.

During a mild case of insomnia I had another thought on cracking/bypassing SQLite password protection: what if (in the case where the app uses a .dll file, rather than statically linking the library) I just downloaded the SQLite source code, added “logging” of sorts to each of the main functions (“login”, executing queries, etc), compiled it, and replaced the application’s version with mine – the DLL would basically just output the database’s password for me, in plain text, perfect for opening it with something like SQLiteSpy :D