Does anybody know what encrypting technique is JDeveloper/SQL Developer using to persist credentials?

Question

I'd be more than interesting for me to understand which technique is being used here to persist sensible data since I'm needing to implement a similar solution. Here's a sample connection configuration and the resulting exported snippet:

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
    <References xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/jndi">
        <Reference name="My Connection" className="oracle.jdeveloper.db.adapter.DatabaseProvider" xmlns="">
        <Factory className="oracle.jdeveloper.db.adapter.DatabaseProviderFactory"/>
        <RefAddresses>
            <StringRefAddr addrType="user">
                <Contents>username</Contents>
            </StringRefAddr>
            <StringRefAddr addrType="password">
                <Contents>054D4844D8549C0DB78EE1A98FE4E085B8A484D20A81F7DCF8</Contents>
            </StringRefAddr>
        <SKIPPED />
        </RefAddresses>
    </Reference>
</References>

Any advice would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

For the curious, what you're actually seeing is the secret key concatenated with the encrypted password. For example, I tried encrypting the password "SAILBOAT" using:

DatabaseProviderHelper.goingOut("SAILBOAT")

In this particular instance, the result was:

0527C290B40C41D71139B5E7A4446E94D7678359087249A463

The first byte is constant:

05

The next 8 bytes represent the randomly generated secret key (for the DES cipher):

27C290B40C41D711

The remaining bytes are the encrypted password:

39B5E7A4446E94D7678359087249A463

Therefore, to decrypt the password, you simply use this:

public static byte[] decryptPassword(byte[] result) throws GeneralSecurityException {
    byte constant = result[0];
    if (constant != 5) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    }

    byte[] secretKey = new byte[8];
    System.arraycopy(result, 1, secretKey, 0, 8);

    byte[] encryptedPassword = new byte[result.length - 9];
    System.arraycopy(result, 9, encryptedPassword, 0, encryptedPassword.length);

    byte[] iv = new byte[8];
    for (int i = 0; i < iv.length; i++) {
        iv[i] = 0;
    }

    Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("DES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
    cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, new SecretKeySpec(secretKey, "DES"), new IvParameterSpec(iv));
    return cipher.doFinal(encryptedPassword);
}