cisco-decrypt(1)

cisco-decrypt1

Decrypts an obfuscated cisco vpn client pre-shared key

Usage

cisco-decrypt <obfuscated pre-shared key>

Overview

This command accompanies vpnc. It decrypts the obfuscated pre-shared key from *.pcf-configuration files, which must be specified on the command line.

The result will be printed to STDOUT.

Releases

Unchanged in 8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

  1. 7–Arch

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.

From vpnc 1:0.5.3.r557.r241-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.