Hi Everyone, Martin (broadcast@mail.ptraced.net) has written a perl script to decrypt the passwords and has kindly allowed me to host his script on my Oracle security tools page so if anyone would like to bookmark it for future reference its on http://www.petefinnigan.com/tools.htm or directly a link to the file is http://www.petefinnigan.com/oracletest.perl Kind regards Pete In article <LREiMlBezvFARxra@peterfinnigan.demon.co.uk>, Pete Finnigan <plsql@petefinnigan.com> writes >Hi > >I thought readers here might be interested in this item. Today I found >that a website has posted the algorithm and sample code for the >encryption algorithm used in Oracles toplink mapping workbench. This >code can be used to decrypt the passwords held in the xml file easily. A >link to the details can be found on my website at >http://www.petefinnigan.com/orasec.htm > >If you use this tool beware of this fact and protect the files used. > >kind regards > >Pete -- Pete Finnigan email:pete@petefinnigan.com Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists Book:Oracle security step-by-step Guide - see http://store.sans.org for details.