Convert a Cisco Type 4 Hash to Hex SHA256 Hash

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Have a look at this from Cisco about password type 4: On your device, can you try this: router config enable secret? The question is can i simply plug this into a standard unix type shadow file format and use john to crack. The deprecation warning for Type 5 passwords will be removed.

Some caveats about the vulnerability: Cisco said that Type 4 passwords must have been purposefully generated, because no preexisting passwords on its devices would have been automatically updated. The question is can i simply plug this into a standard unix type shadow file format and use john to crack.

Firewall.cx - It seems that cain doesn't like using the dictionary i supplied and that's why it didn't crack, when i tried using brute-force it worked fine. Typically that's stored in clear text no breaking necessary.

The enable password password does not encrypt the password and can be view in clear text in the running-config. In order to encrypt the enable password passworduse the service password-encryption command. To be clear, the enable secret password command provides stronger encryption than the service password-encryption command. Typically that's stored in clear text no breaking necessary. It was a great attempt. This is not a stored password. Instead it's a hash phrase which is secret by the router using a seed. It is secret susceptible to man in the middle attacks since you can supply a challenge against a pre-hashed value. Though someone who sees it can crack it running free tools available from hundreds of places online with little searching. Is seeded the same as salted? If not, how are they diferent? Are you referring to a collison? It is however susceptible to man in the middle attacks since you can supply a challenge against a pre-hashed value. Please explain how this would work during a remote login. If you are using both enable password and enable secret password then enable scret password override the enable password. Enable secret passowrd will be given priority and that passwoed will be yours enable password to login into router. I was on my phone when I wrote that and I tend to focus more on typing than on what I'm typing Ok, yes, I meant salted. Seeding is a similar process in random number generation. It's also why it is so important to have so many bits. This is why we never approach the topic from trying one at a time. We instead agorithmically decrypt our way in towards a result which will generate the cisco hash. Let's assume you're working with a challenge attack. If I were to capture even a single exchange password two devices which have the correct passwords, the goal would be to figure out what key would generate the decrypt containing in the challenge response given the contents of the challenge, the sequence number and the other parts of the packet involved. One method is to assume the key used to generate the hash was 10 bytes or less and contains only keys typable on an English keyboard. This is a huge cisco list to work through. So, all you've have to do is search the tree based on which keys would likely generate the next bit of the key. We're still talking about tens of trillions of possibilities to try, but that is within reason to calculate. Hope this clears some things up. This sets a console password.

Lab 4 - Configuring Passwords
The system will then process and reveal the text-based password. Any other tools available to crack these types of passwords. In order to encrypt the enable password password , use the service password-encryption command. How do salts appreciably slow down brute force cracking a single password? If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and please destroy all copies of this message and attachments. The Type 4 algorithm was designed to be a stronger alternative to the existing Type 5 and Type 7 algorithms to increase the resiliency of passwords used for the enable secret password and username username secret password commands against brute-force attacks. Cisco would like to thank Mr. See below: Hope someone can help, Thanks!