How to Decrypt an Encrypted Password in QTP

To encode or encrypt a password, QTP provides Encrypt method and Password Encoder tool. But what happens when a user wants to find out the decrypted (original) value of an encrypted password? QTP doesn’t provide a direct way to obtain the decrypted/decoded password. The only method available is the SetSecure method which internally decrypts the value and sets it in the password fields. The trick here is to use SetSecure...

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How to Encrypt Passwords using QTP

his article covers the different aspects of password encryption in QTP. It talks about why password encryption may be needed, how to encrypt passwords using QTP and how to use the encrypted passwords in our scripts. Lets discuss all these points one by one.Why Password Encryption is Needed?In most of the automation projects, the scripts would be dealing with various user ids and passwords, be it application credentials, DB passwords and other similar...

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