Decrypt Password
Danita Roemer
by regain access, I mean be able to view and edit the password entries that I have previously made. Yes, I have server access. Yes, I have database access. If the key is the one you download while initially setting up the account, then yes, I also have the key from last time.
No, It is still only one use, one account. I have the same user id as before. All the secrets are there and match with the corresponding resources. Pass bolt is just unable to decrypt them when I enter my account password.
I have been having a problem with SEE where I cannot decrypt files even when I use the correct password. Here is the scenario, I had a work laptop that used SEE so any files saved to an external hard drive would automatically encrypt. When opened on a different machine not using SEE, the user would have to enter a password to decrypt. I use the default password so all files encrypt with a single password rather than creating a password every time files are saved.
I have only created one default password and have never changed it, to this point. About one month ago, I saved some files and while I was trying to decrypt a couple files and couldn't remember the password. Finally, I was able to decrypt the files as I remembered the password. About one week later, I was at a client and wanted to give him a file using my thumb drive. The password did not work. I logged in and changed it to the exact same password, re-saved the file, and gave it to the client. The password worked correctly.
When I left my previous company about 2 weeks after this incident, I had a bunch of resources I saved to a couple different external hard drives. When I tried to decrypt the files on my new work computer, I am again receiving the error that I am entering an incorrect password. There is no question that I am entering the correct password. One of my close friends (and colleague at the former company) is an information security expert (I am an IT auditor) and I shared this scenario with him. He has had the same problem. He told me he has had to change the password every time before he saves any files otherwise the password will not work when decrypting.
I resolved the issue. The problem was C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config file. In the config file, I deleted username and password definitions for applications and it worked well.
Kevin Thanks. I learned something new. Maybe you can steer me the right direction. I am using SQL to store my usernames and passwords. As of now they are plain text. In ignition when someone signs-in by providing a username/password, I run a query against the user entered credentials and the database credentials and if valid, I pass them to the SwitchUser command for ignition to actually perform the login. I don't like that the password is plain text thus me trying to encrypt it or "hide" it. I tried 2 different methods. Method #1 was using SHA1 and Method #2 using AES encryption that I discovered in the post below. Here's my problem. Both methods "hide" the password, but Ignitions SwitchUser has no way to "Decrypt" it. It simply treats it as a plain text password, and if you were to pass to SwitchUser the hash or the actual encrypted text, it will allow you to login as it simply sees it as the password. So my problem is; how do you properly encrypt and decrypt a password in ignition. Hopefully I am making sense.
edit: To be a bit more accurate (and maybe pedantic), you wouldn't use an encrypted pasword.
You'd use a hashed and salted password. Which is not un-hashable.
Then when a user wants to login, you send the input password through the same process and compare the output to what's stored in your database.
Which sounds like what I quoted, that's why I'm wondering why you're not satisfied with it.
You DON'T encrypt and decrypt passwords. If you're using encrypting functions that allow passwords to be decrypted, you're doing it wrong.
Your approach is broken. The switchuser functionality needs the plain text password. It is not considered a secure approach to store passwords in any reversible form. So you will have to make some provisions to ensure your user passwords that are salted and hashed in your database remain synchronized with your user passwords maintained similarly in a user source or identity provider.
2/ Is it possible to use this command for $6 encrypted (hased ?) string, like the one stored for admin password stored in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd. I suppose it's not possible since it's a password and it should not be "reversible" for security reason.
I have a PDF that requires a password to view. I know what the password is. I frequently open this PDF to print it, and find entering the password each time incredibly annoying. How can I remove the password from the PDF?
The first type of password is called Open Password or User Passwords. With this password, the whole file is encrypted. Without knowning the password, you cannot open it, not to mention printing, editing or copying. The file is totally useless to you. You can only crack it by brute force, which will takes you months to hundreds of years to get back the password. The length of time depends on the power of your computer and the complexity of the password. This article will NOT tell you how to unlock Open Password protected PDF files.
The second type of password is called Owner Password. If you want to turn off protection for printing, editing and copying, you will be asked for this password. Technically speaking, the protection for printing, editing and copying is just a number of bits of flags. You can turn off these flags without knowing the Owner Password. All software SHOULD (not MUST) ask for Owner Passwords if someone want to change the protection flags. This is why we can unlock PDF files for printing, editing and copying without asking for a password.
This is a quite common issue and needs update in 2021. To remove a password from PDF file on Mac, the simplest way is using Preview app. First open password protected PDF with Preview app. Then input the password to unlock the file. From the File menu, select Export and choose a location to store the PDF. Make sure the Encrypt option is unchecked. After that, if you are trying to open the saved copy, no password is required to open the file.
However, this is only applicable for PDF open password. For permission password, the protection can not be deleted in this way. You have to unlock the restriction password. Fortunately, there are a lot of free and paid apps for that, such as iSeePassword Dr.PDF, SmallPDF, SodaPDF, etc.
It does give you the option to use a different passphrase If you actually choose that option it asks for a new hint as well. So let's work on the principle I'd not be asking the question if I'd be daft enough to deliberately select the option highlighted "NOT RECOMMENDED" and jump through those hoops given they're a big red warning thatI I'd be right on the way to ***** this up. (You think I'd mistype the same passphrase in that box twice, and use the same password hint as I'm used to? Really? Occam's Razor is starting to apply here!)
On the Android App (v7.1.4) i can decrypt for viewing the Note, but when i want to edit it i have to re-enter the password and it stays in the unencrypted view with the Message "failed to decrypt content".
On the webversion i can decrypt the text but i can not find a way of simply editing it. (Copy & paste will probably work, but that's just an annoying workaround). I feel like Evernote has some serious underlying issues with this.
Hey @dean@umms, this is actually a known issue to our development team where content encrypted on the Windows client will not decrypt on the Mac client. I've gone ahead and converted your post to a Support Ticket so that I can grab some more info from you, I'll be in touch shortly.
thanks, BSR. it works through the web browser. wonder why it's not working on my phone or mac, in the native app...??? software bug, maybe? PS - before it *did* decrypt in chrome, i received the message that my typed passcode wasn't base 64 and was therefore invalid, but after i acknowledged that message, it successfully decrypted.
@deaddowney, here's the (really stupid) resolution: use the browser to copy the text from your encrypted note once you've entered the password. now go over to your evernote installation and create a new note, pasting the contents of the encrypted version from your browser. encrypt the new note and delete the old one. (be sure all the contents from your originally encrypted note are intact before deleting!) now the decryption will work in both your browser and the evernote program. GEEZ. REALLY....????????????
Rather, I'd encourage all to use a professional, well-established, reliable, dedicated password manager, like 1Password. The security is ultra high, while still providing exceptional convenience to quickly logging in to all web sites, as well as a number of other key features like password generation, and secure storage of all of your license keys for your apps. 1Password is now available on all major platforms, including mobile, and you can share your AES-256 encrypted database via Dropbox and other services.
Hi. I use LastPass which is another password manager app with a good reputation. It suggests passwords for me too, and in most cases I have no clue what they actually are - the style generated is essentially unmemorable. But without exception each password protected site has a lost password process, so even if LastPass crashed forever I'd still have access to my data - eventually - albeit with some extra effort for the first time.
i shall prioritise my move to 1Password, but of course without resetting passwords first to get to sites 'or remembering the easier ones] I can't do it until Evernote is working properly or iLl have random superseded p/was in Evernote.
Opening Evernote Web client in macOS Chrome (Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit)) and getting the following: neither block is decrypted, UI just stuck after entering passphrase and pressing Ok button, it just nothing can do or say to me, looks like there is no working functionality on decryption in web UI.
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