RE: Cisco Catalyst 4006 CatOS Password Hash

From: Paul Bakker (bakker@fox-it.com)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 04:01:46 EST


Correction from myself...
 
> Hi Miles..
>
> Shouldn't the length of the hash be longer in case of this?
> MD5 hashes are 16 bytes and SHA-1 hashes are 20 bytes...
>
> These hashes only have 16 bytes after the last $ sign...

The hashes have exactly 22 characters after the last dollar sign...
The same as the Cisco IOS passwords that have:
$1$xxxx$yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Where
x = a 4 character salt
y = a 22 character MD5 hash

These are identical (4 + 22) but with $2$ at the start...

Paul Bakker

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