In this video I show you how insecure a Cisco password really is. I hope after watching this video that you stop relying on 'service password-encryption' an. Enable and Enable Secret password on CISCO Switch. March 8, 2016 by virdih Leave a Comment. ENABLE SECRET PASSWORD. Enable password uses a weak encryption algorithm. To overcome this situation, we use enable secret password on the device. When both enable password and enable secret password are configured, enable secret password is used to. No enable secret I'm playing with the password commands to make it clear. I've enable secret password now what I want to know is how to turn it off. Sorry noob here sir.
Almost all passwords and other authentication strings in Cisco IOS configuration files are encrypted using the weak, reversible scheme used for user passwords. Cisco devices can use a proprietary encryption algorithm to encrypt the password for enable mode and vty lines. This kind of encryption is used when 'service password-encryption' has been enabled on the device and produces Type-7 passwords. Cisco
Enable Password (not enable secret), User passwords and most other passwords like VTY Password, Console Password, AUX Password in Cisco IOS configuration files are encrypted using a scheme that is very weak by modern cryptographic standards. Type 7 Passwords are not secure and can easily be decrypted. Cisco type 7 Password could be identifying as a password in the configuration file with a '7' in the second to last field. A Cisco Type 7 Passwords is encrypted using Cisco's weak proprietary algorithm. 
Almost all passwords and other authentication strings in Cisco IOS configuration files are encrypted using the weak, reversible scheme used for user passwords. Cisco devices can use a proprietary encryption algorithm to encrypt the password for enable mode and vty lines. This kind of encryption is used when 'service password-encryption' has been enabled on the device and produces Type-7 passwords. Cisco