The key is &quot;Nipper47&quot;. Only 8 characters in the standard &quot;short english-ish word starting with a capital letter followed by a couple numbers&quot;-pattern. I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s less that pg_crypto is easy to crack, and more that the key is trivially insecure and easy to brute-force. But sibling is probably right that it was just sitting there.