With Websphere, you can store passwords in config files in a crypted form.
The encryption algorithm used is XOR, with a secret key.
You can use the same java classes Wepshere internally use to manually crypt/decrypt a text string. Those classes are in ws_runtime.jar file, which you can find in Websphere installation path:
Move to the folder where ws_runtime.jar is located and run the classes from the package com.ibm.ws.security.util
- PasswordEncoder, to encode
- PasswordDecoder, to decode
including the jar in the classpath, for example:
java -cp ws_runtime.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordEncoder <plain_password>
java -cp ws_runtime.jar com.ibm.ws.security.util.PasswordDecoder <encrypted_password>
I found also a useful website that decodes Websphere passwords:
http://www.poweredbywebsphere.com/decoder.html