[j-nsp] Unscramble authentication-key

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Mon Apr 19 04:23:40 EDT 2004


On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:15:18AM +0200, Robert Kiessling wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in order to do a comparison between configured MD5 secrets and a
> database, we need to decode the $9$ scrambeled authentication-keys.
> 
> What's the algorithm for this?

	If the other side is a cisco, it's stored in cleartext in
memory.  you just need to find the location of the tcp tcb in
memory and do "sh mem <address>" and you'll find it not far in
there..

	- jared


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