Method #1

$secpass = "01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb01000000a72af0017793e444898569c8ef545b070000000002000000000003660000c000000010000000fe66e81fb73df2f0d80bbff5d7411c2e0000000004800000a0000000100000001433730952b9cd2f7fe396fd3b5cf405600000004430138907b7e2f22129e3f1dc15db8e97d541b61b9933a288ba2855202034dbbb968417d3775a7c35d1d5af6469174773d7d008f5b4cebf93ab577e0d731349cc1a42308686f4f9bcca1bc9a932dd1375db5215bf8d4d8c997df2d8779a48d014000000744ce7852689043a9bf4262e43057be0301969f5" | ConvertTo-SecureString;$Pass = (New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential "N/A", $SecPass).GetNetworkCredential().Password; $Pass

Method #2

$secpass = "01000000d08c9ddf0115d1118c7a00c04fc297eb01000000a72af0017793e444898569c8ef545b070000000002000000000003660000c000000010000000fe66e81fb73df2f0d80bbff5d7411c2e0000000004800000a0000000100000001433730952b9cd2f7fe396fd3b5cf405600000004430138907b7e2f22129e3f1dc15db8e97d541b61b9933a288ba2855202034dbbb968417d3775a7c35d1d5af6469174773d7d008f5b4cebf93ab577e0d731349cc1a42308686f4f9bcca1bc9a932dd1375db5215bf8d4d8c997df2d8779a48d014000000744ce7852689043a9bf4262e43057be0301969f5" | ConvertTo-SecureString
$Ptr = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToCoTaskMemUnicode($password)
$result = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringUni($Ptr)
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::ZeroFreeCoTaskMemUnicode($Ptr)
$result
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