Cisco Type-7 Password Decoder

IOS type-7 is a reversible Vigenère-style encoding — useful for recovering legacy service password-encryption hashes. Encrypt too, but never trust this for security.

Decode

Plaintext

cisco

Encode

Type-7 hash

060506324F41584B56

How it works

IOS type-7 uses a fixed 53-character key tfd;kfoA,.iyewrkldJKDHSUBsgvca69834ncxv9873254k;fg87. The first 2 hex digits are an index (0-15) into the key; each subsequent pair is XORed with the next key byte (wrapping). The encoding is fully reversible — never use it for actual secrets.