How would I go about unmasking encrypted characters in a numerical string to show out put as numbers and not masked data?

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I am using VS 19 and PyCharm, I am working on and trying to learn how to unmask characters like you would when you want a password to be seen or not for my web page and also for users for users who make purchases. Now it isn't secure I would be venerable to have people do this on there own so I can or need to figure out if the my pages was secure and encrypted the data can't be seen by anyone other then me the owner of the web site? In this case I would like to learn how to unmask **** from data in a websites code into a numerical string. This is possible right? In a legal way of course :)

What I have tried:

Private Sub CheckBox2_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles CheckBox2.CheckedChanged
    If CheckBox2.Checked Then
        TextBox14.PasswordChar = "*"c
    Else
        TextBox14.PasswordChar = ControlChars.NullChar
    End If
End Sub

Posted 24-Feb-21 0:57am

- srybczyk-

Updated 24-Feb-21 1:30am

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Richard Deeming 24-Feb-21 7:13am

You / your site should NOT be able to see the user's password. You should be storing a salted hash of the password, with no way to recover or view the original.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2021-02-24T01:30:00

You can't, unless the has been written by a rank amateur.
The password text box you see and that the user interacts with doesn't contain the password characters, it just contains the stars. The password is retained elsewhere in the code, often in a SecureString which is tself encrypted.

Even is it could be done, it would count as malicious code, and we do not condone, support, or assist in the production of malicious code in any way, form, or manner. This is a professional site for professional developers.

If you want to know how to create such things, you need to visit a hacking site: but be sure to disable all firewalls and antivirus products first or they won't trust you enough to tell you.