Decrypt Type 7 Password
- Cracking CISCO ASA Passwords. Are these two passwords the same format/hash type (the first doesn't have any 'punctuation' but that might just be by chance. I'm familiar with cracking the MD5 passwords, level/type 7 'secrets' etc but not cracking the enable password for IOS devices.
- There are many tools to decrypt Cisco type-7 password, based on Vigenere algorithm. But, what can we do if we can not use these software? The Cisco-IOS method might not be new to some, but those.
Decrypt Cisco Type 7 Passwords iBeast Business Solutions. Password to Decrypt: Other Tools from iBeast.com. The type 7 encryption can be used by the enable password, username, and line password commands, this includes, line console, vty and aux port. It offers very limited protection as it only hides the password using a simple encryption algorithm. This is the default -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD Password to encrypt / decrypt -f FILE, --file=FILE Cisco config file, only for decryption If we specify a config file, it will look for all type 7 passwords in it. For encryption or decryption you need to know only 'salt' other words - password or passphrase; After encryption you will see base64 encoded string as output, so you may safely send it to someone who already know the password, or send a link (use 'store' option) to encrypted text. Aug 08, 2015 The type 7 encryption can be used by the enable password, username, and line password commands, this includes, line console, vty and aux port. It offers very limited protection as it only hides the password using a simple encryption algorithm.
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Decrypt Type 7 Cisco Passwords
The Internet is full of sites that have something like the tool below, tap your ‘encrypted’ password in and it will reveal the Cisco password.
As you can see I’ve specifically written ‘obfuscated’ above, because the password isn’t actually encrypted at all. All that happens is the Vigenere algorithm is used to obfuscate the password. While tools like the one above are all well and good, your Cisco router will do exactly the same for you, to demonstrate, paste the following into the tool above.
107D1C09560521580F16693F14082026351C1512
Hopefully you will get the password Sup3rS3cr#tP@ssword.
Your router can also convert that to clear text for you;
Dell Type 7 Password Decrypt
So whats the point of these type 7 passwords? Well the only real benefit of them is if someone is looking over your shoulder while you are looking at the config, they can’t see actual passwords in the config.
The passwords in my config are in clear text? That’s because there are three levels of password storage 0 (not encrypted), 7 (weakly encrypted), and (5 strongly encrypted). If you want to convert your config to display them as 7 you need to enter the service password-encryption command;
If Type 7 passwords are so weak, how do I use Type 5 passwords? When creating accounts use the secret command like so;
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Well armed with the salt and the hash, we can use exactly the same method that Cisco use to create the encrypted password, by brute force attacking the password, this might sound like a difficult piece of hacking ninja skill, but we simply use openssl on a Linux box (here I'm using CentOS 6.5), all you need is a wordlist.txt file (search the Internet).
Feed openssl the salt, and a piece of the hash (see the example above), and it will run through, (grep) the wordlist until it finds a match, where it spits out the decrypted password an the original hash like so;
The decrypted password is SECRETPASSWORD
Note: The limitation here is the password has to be in the wordlist.txt file,but if you are adept at searching the Internet there are some impressive wordlist files out there, just make sure you use one that has full line breaks. Also remember, the longer the wordlist, the longer it takes.
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