Decoding an encrypted (Perforce) repository password

[Gabor Maghera]

I'm working on a plugin which will leverage Perforce's own P4Java API. In order to connect, I've instantiated a com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.perforce.PerforceRepository object, which has a getEncryptedPassword() method. I'd like to decode the password returned by this method, and use it to connect to the Perforce server, using P4Java (Perforce's implementation, not the tek42 one used by Bamboo). I realize this has some security implications.

is this possible to do? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,

Gabor

[Gabor Maghera · Accepted solution]

I was able to decrypt it using these two lines:

import com.atlassian.bamboo.security.StringEncrypter;
....
String clrPassword = new StringEncrypter().decrypt(perforceRepository.getEncryptedPassword());