encrypting the srx configuration file

Hi all,

there's an option to encrypt your config file on the srx:

http://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos12.1x44/topics/task/configuration/security-configuration-file-encrypting.html

It works nice, but if you are archiving your configs on a management-server, then how would you be able to read/decrypt your config files in case you need to?

This seems like a legit question, as sometimes one would need to review the deployed config whilst the SRX in question is crashed or unreachable for some other reason.

Perhaps its possible with Junos Space, but while we might be able to use that in the future, I havent been able to find any documentation on that so far either.

I tried some AES decrypting tools, but no luck sofar. (I have the encryption-key ofcourse, I entered it in the EEPROM myself...)

Anyone got any experience with this?

kind regards,