Does anybody know what encrypting technique is JDeveloper/SQL Developer using to persist credentials?
For the curious, what you’re actually seeing is the secret key concatenated with the encrypted password. For example, I tried encrypting the password “SAILBOAT” using: DatabaseProviderHelper.goingOut(“SAILBOAT”) In this particular instance, the result was: 0527C290B40C41D71139B5E7A4446E94D7678359087249A463 The first byte is constant: 05 The next 8 bytes represent the randomly generated secret key (for the DES cipher): 27C290B40C41D711 … Read more