Cisco Type 5 Password Decrypt File

Cisco officially discourages Type 5 for new deployments. Modern IOS versions default to Type 8 (PBKDF2-SHA256) or Type 9 (Scrypt).

If you have ever glanced at a Cisco router or switch configuration file (the dreaded running-config or startup-config ), you have seen lines that look like this: cisco type 5 password decrypt