CISCO-DECRYPT(1)

hey bestie 💖 welcome to the cisco-decrypt(1) page — it ships alongside vpnc, and it's here for one very specific little job. buckle up, it's giving useful ✨

✨ NAME ✨

cisco-decrypt — decrypts an obfuscated Cisco vpn client pre-shared key 🔓💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cisco-decrypt <obfuscated pre-shared key>

like, that's the whole call, bestie 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this command accompanies vpnc. It decrypts the obfuscated pre-shared key from *.pcf-configuration files, which must be specified on the command line — you literally have to hand them over, no cap 🫶.

The result will be printed to STDOUT. that's the whole reveal ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

cisco-decrypt was originally written by Maurice Massar. This man-page was written by Jörg Mayer, based on the pcf2vpnc manpage written by Wolfram Sang (ninja(at)the-dreams.de) 🎀.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL 📚.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• vpnc(8)
• pcf2vpnc(1)

go read those too, iykyk 💜

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mwah 💋 byeee — source/version cisco-decrypt, dated August 2007, chillin' in the CISCO-DECRYPT(1) manual 🫶