Convert a secure string to plain text

问题

I\'m working in PowerShell and I have code that successfully converts a user entered password into plain text:

$SecurePassword = Read-Host -AsSecureString  \"Enter password\" | convertfrom-securestring | out-file C:\\Users\\tmarsh\\Documents\\securePassword.txt

I\'ve been tried several ways to convert it back, but none of them seem to work properly. Most recently, I\'ve tried with the following:

$PlainPassword = Get-Content C:\\Users\\tmarsh\\Documents\\securePassword.txt

#convert the SecureString object to plain text using PtrToString and SecureStringToBSTR
$BSTR = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($PlainPassword)
$PlainPassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($BSTR)
[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ZeroFreeBSTR($BSTR) #this is an important step to keep things secure

This gives me an error as well.

Cannot convert argument \"s\", with value: \"01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb0100000026a5b6067d53fd43801a9ef3f8ef9e43000000000200000000000366000
0c0000000100000008118fdea02bfb57d0dda41f9748a05f10000000004800000a000000010000000c50f5093f3b87fbf9ee57cbd17267e0a10000000833d1d712cef01497872a3457bc8
bc271400000038c731cb8c47219399e4265515e9569438d8e8ed\", for \"SecureStringToBSTR\" to type \"System.Security.SecureString\": \"Cannot convert the \"01000000
d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb0100000026a5b6067d53fd43801a9ef3f8ef9e430000000002000000000003660000c0000000100000008118fdea02bfb57d0dda41f9748a05f10
000000004800000a000000010000000c50f5093f3b87fbf9ee57cbd17267e0a10000000833d1d712cef01497872a3457bc8bc271400000038c731cb8c47219399e4265515e9569438d8e8
ed\" value of type \"System.String\" to type \"System.Security.SecureString\".\"
At C:\\Users\\tmarsh\\Documents\\Scripts\\Local Admin Script\\PlainTextConverter1.ps1:14 char:1
+ $BSTR = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($PlainPassw ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument

Cannot find an overload for \"PtrToStringAuto\" and the argument count: \"1\".
At C:\\Users\\tmarsh\\Documents\\Scripts\\Local Admin Script\\PlainTextConverter1.ps1:15 char:1
+ $PlainPassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($BSTR ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodCountCouldNotFindBest

Cannot convert argument \"s\", with value: \"\", for \"ZeroFreeBSTR\" to type \"System.IntPtr\": \"Cannot convert null to type \"System.IntPtr\".\"
At C:\\Users\\tmarsh\\Documents\\Scripts\\Local Admin Script\\PlainTextConverter1.ps1:16 char:1
+ [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ZeroFreeBSTR($BSTR) #this is an important ste ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument

Password is:  01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb0100000026a5b6067d53fd43801a9ef3f8ef9e430000000002000000000003660000c0000000100000008118fdea02bfb57d0dda41f97
48a05f10000000004800000a000000010000000c50f5093f3b87fbf9ee57cbd17267e0a10000000833d1d712cef01497872a3457bc8bc271400000038c731cb8c47219399e4265515e9569
438d8e8ed

Does anyone know of a way that will work for this?

回答1:

You are close, but the parameter you pass to SecureStringToBSTR must be a SecureString. You appear to be passing the result of ConvertFrom-SecureString, which is an encrypted standard string. So call ConvertTo-SecureString on this before passing to SecureStringToBSTR.

$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $PlainPassword
$BSTR = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($SecurePassword)
$UnsecurePassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($BSTR)

回答2:

You may also use PSCredential.GetNetworkCredential() :

$SecurePassword = Get-Content C:\Users\tmarsh\Documents\securePassword.txt | ConvertTo-SecureString
$UnsecurePassword = (New-Object PSCredential "user",$SecurePassword).GetNetworkCredential().Password

回答3:

The easiest way to convert back it in PowerShell

[System.Net.NetworkCredential]::new("", $SecurePassword).Password

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28352141/convert-a-secure-string-to-plain-text

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