The fact that it is base 64 encoded doesn't tell us much because base 64 is not an encryption/hashing algorithm it is a way to encode binary data into text. What you have posted is 16 bytes (128 bits) of base 64 encoded data. Is the password length limited ? Namely, if you set a 40-character password and cannot successfully authenticate by typing only the first 39 characters, then this means that all characters are important, and this implies that this really is password hashing, not encryption (the stored value is used to verify a password, but the password cannot be recovered from the stored value alone).You may want to try to compute MD5('username:password') or other similar variants, to see if you get a match. Assuming that the value is deterministic from the password for a given user, if two users choose the same password, does it result in the same stored value ? If no, then the user name is probably part of the computation.If the same user 'changes' his password but reuses the same, does the stored value changes ? If yes, then part of the value is probably a randomized 'salt' or IV (assuming symmetric encryption).So reverse engineering is the 'way to go'.īarring reverse engineering, you can make a few experiments to try to make educated guesses: Application code is incarnated in a tangible, fat way (executable files on a server, source code somewhere.) which is not, and cannot be, as much protected as a secret key can. The 'normal' way to know that is to look at the application code. not really an 'encrypted' password, rather a 'hashed' password) then this is probably the result of a hash function computed over the password the one classical hash function with a 128-bit output is MD5. If this is a value stored for password verification (i.e. Your example string ( WeJcFMQ/8+8QJ/w0hHh+0g=) is Base64 encoding for a sequence of 16 bytes, which do not look like meaningful ASCII or UTF-8.

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