Re: CISCO MD5 encryption

[Daniel M Daloia Jr <daniel.daloia () yahoo com>]

Just to add to the enable secret. 

The user passwords from the local user database can also be hashed with MD5 if the secret keyword is used before the 
password


Switch1(config)#username newuser1 secret mypasswordisradical
Switch1(config)#do show run | inc newuser1
username newuser1 secret 5 $1$0Dpv$1vLIC1IZVhupcox60CPvA1
Switch1(config)#





----- Original Message -----
From:PEra <lists () sevenlayers org>
To:security-basics () securityfocus com
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Sent:Friday, February 18, 2011 12:14 PM
Subject:Re: CISCO MD5 encryption

Hi,

On 02/18/2011 05:13 PM, César García wrote:
> Hello all, this is my first question here, I have a cisco switch where
> my passwords are encrypted with MD5,

are you sure it's MD5? Or do you mean the masked strings from "service password-encryption"? Those are easily 
reversable[1]. The "enable secret" is salted, IIRC.

Greets,
PEra

[1] http://freeworld.thc.org/root/tools/ciscocrack.c

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