Crack Cisco Password Secret 5000

KB ID 0000940 Problem Decrypt Type 7 Cisco PasswordsThe Internet is full of sites that have something like the tool below, tap your ‘encrypted’ password in and it will reveal the Cisco password.Input Type 7 Obfuscated Password: Output Plain Text 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.107D1C0F20. Petes-Router#Petes-Router# configure terminalEnter configuration commands, one per line.

Cisco Type 7 Password Crack

Petes-Router# configure terminalEnter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.Petes-Router(config)# username petelong secret Password123Petes-Router(config)#Displays in the config as;username petelong secret 5 $1$VkQd$Vma3sR7B1LL.v5lgy1NYc/ Decrypting Type 5 Cisco PasswordsDecrypting a Type 5 Cisco password is an entirely different ball game, they are considered ‘secure’ because they are ‘salted’ (have some random text added to the password to create an MD5 hash) however that random salt is shown in the config. root@pnl-server1 # openssl passwd -1 -salt TMnL -table -in wordlist.txt grep 8vR1DeIp6 SECRETPASSWORD $1$TMnL$iAFs16ZXx7x18vR1DeIp6/root@pnl-server1 #The decrypted password is SECRETPASSWORDNote: 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. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External LinksNA.