Decrypt SHA Passwords
Hello,
I am working on a disaster recovery of a SUN email system. No email accounts are accessible. I have the passwords as recorded in the database, but the passwords are encrypted in some form of SHA. I have tried some online crackers to see if they help. They might, but I am uncertain what to do of the results. Some crackers say that I am entering an illegal character.
Here is an example of a password entry:
{SSHA}KjOS/137lI/jiLMlRXcz
What part of this line entry is the encrypted password? If I find a way to decrypt it, should I expect the original clear text password or is that completely lost and I should expect the new results to be the password?
Are there any suggestions on how to decrypt a password like this that is in some version of SHA?
Thanks.
I am working on a disaster recovery of a SUN email system. No email accounts are accessible. I have the passwords as recorded in the database, but the passwords are encrypted in some form of SHA. I have tried some online crackers to see if they help. They might, but I am uncertain what to do of the results. Some crackers say that I am entering an illegal character.
Here is an example of a password entry:
{SSHA}KjOS/137lI/jiLMlRXcz
What part of this line entry is the encrypted password? If I find a way to decrypt it, should I expect the original clear text password or is that completely lost and I should expect the new results to be the password?
Are there any suggestions on how to decrypt a password like this that is in some version of SHA?
Thanks.
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Thanks. I saw that link too, and it looks like it might help or at least the best choice if all things were perfect. Perhaps, the drawback is that this is not in plain text and maybe the particular password is dependent upon salt.
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I have tried a couple online decrypters but I am not sure if I am entering in the data correctly, or if my results are useful.
If I paste in the whole string, the following decrypter doesn't like a character:
http://md5decrypt.net/en/Sha1/
Here is another link that looked promising:
http://myeasywww.appspot.com/utility/free/online/Crypt_Decrypt-MD5-AES-HMAC-SHA-DES-RABBIT/en?command=UTILITY&ID=2