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Rather, I believe it's important that administrators understand this process so they can better protect their routers' administrative passwords. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc.

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Firewall.cx - I am not sure if John the Ripper can crack a Cisco 5 Password, but you can launch a brute force or dictionary attack against it. This will be the same behavior as before the introduction of Type 4 passwords.

Why the disparity between the hashes? Such encryption is useful in order to prevent secret observers from reading passwords, such as when they look at the screen over the muster of an administrator. However, the algorithm used by the service password-encryption decrypt is a simple Vigenère cipher. The algorithm is not designed to protect configuration files against serious analysis by even slightly sophisticated attackers and must not be used for this purpose. While this weak encryption algorithm is not used dedrypt the enable secret command, it is used by the enable password global configuration command, as well as the password line configuration command. Passwords of this type must be eliminated and the enable secret command or the feature needs to be used. This algorithm has had considerable public review and is not known to be reversible. However, the algorithm is subject to dictionary attacks. In a dictionary attack, an attacker tries every word in a dictionary or other list of candidate passwords in order to find a match. Therefore, configuration files must be securely stored and only shared with trusted individuals. We would expect any amateur cryptographer to be able to create a new cisco with little effort. The encryption scheme was designed to avoid password theft via simple snooping or sniffing. It was never intended to protect against someone decrypting a password-cracking effort on the configuration file. Because of the weak encryption algorithm, it has always been Cisco's position that customers should treat any configuration file containing passwords as sensitive information, the same way they would treat a cleartext list of passwords. The enable password command secdet no longer be used.

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Sample show tech-support command output is shown below. Below is information on what the Cisco configuration line will look like that stores the Type 5 password, an example Cisco Type 5 password hash, and an example cracking a Cisco Type 5 password. Misuse, copying and redistribution of this e-mail are forbidden. If you have the opportunity to test, I'd be interested to know your results. The following example shows the username username secret password command and the string Th1z 1s+53kri7 as the plaintext password: router configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. The enable password command should no longer be used.