[j-nsp] Unscramble authentication-key

Streiner, Justin streiner at stargate.net
Mon Apr 19 09:27:49 EDT 2004


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Robert Kiessling wrote:

> 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?

I don't think there is one.  The brute-force method would be to find/write
something that encrypts a potential secret, and if the encrypted result
matches your actual encrypted secret, you have a match.

jms


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