Switch Local Password Store and Hash

[MattiasHem]

Hi

I have 3 hp switchen in my PCI enviromnet.

Amd om looking for some security info on the switches witch i cant fint on google.

1. Where does the switch store the manager and operator passwords ?

2. What kind of hash is used to store the passwords ?

My swicthes are 

 HP 2910-24G

Reagrds Mattias Hemmingsson

[SCOOTER]

1. Somewhere on the inside of the switch :) Why do you want to know this?

2. MD5 (that should be in the manuals)

[Chrisd131313]

1. I did read this somewhere in a manual a while ago, but for the life of me cannot find it to reference. But if memory serves my correct the passwords are stored in a NVRAM bank seperate from the startup-config NVRAM.

2. Either MD5 or SHA-1. SHA-1 is used when encrypting credentials, so I would assume that the password encryption built in would be the same. But I can not find any documentation specifying the exact algorithm used.