How Jeroen Zomer sees IT

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Comfort Zone

Sunday, June 9th, 2013 Posted in websphere, work | 3 Comments »


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A substantial part of my job is to train people to work as an IT specialist and as a company we have done a pretty good job. We do not train many people, but we seem to train them properly. ...

Decoding WebSphere passwords

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 Posted in security, technology, websphere, work | 28 Comments »


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Older versions of IBM WebSphere encodes its passwords with a simple algorithm. These passwords are not encrypted and it has been known for long that decoding them is fairly simple. So far the presented methods did not always suit my ...

unstash in Java

Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in security, technology, websphere, work | 45 Comments »


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It has been ten years ago - 1999 - since the (in)famous unstash-script came out. It was a cryptic PERL script, which could read IBM's stash files and deliver you the 'encrypted' password. I was in need of the script, as ...