PowerShell - Decode System.Security.SecureString to readable password

Question

I want to decode the password from a System.Security.SecureString to a readable password.

$password = convertto-securestring \"TestPassword\" -asplaintext -f         


        

Answer 1

The details are explained http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2010/09/21/decrypt-secure-strings-in-powershell.aspx

and I have yet another slightly different way of doing it.

$pass=convertto-securestring "P@ssw0rd" -asplaintext -force  | ConvertFrom-SecureString
[Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR( (ConvertTo-SecureString $pass) ))

P@ssw0rd