Which means William Binney was right. The government, via the NSA, really is collecting, recording, and storing digitally telephone records, emails, and other Internet communications domestically for the purposes of gathering intelligence. A former NSA official, Binney certainly was in a position to know.
For WPA/WPA2 preshared keys, the DataOut.pbData will contain the plaintext password. Unlike WPA/WPA2 keys, WEP keys are stored in hex format, i.e., the output buffer will store the key in its binary representation. A single post-processing step is required to convert the binary string to hex:
The password itself is not stored in AD in decryptable form. As I understand it what is stored is a hash of the password and the date/time when the password was set. When a user logging on enters the password that value and the date/time when the password was last set are used to re-calculate the stored hash. if this is the same as the stored hash, the assumption is that the user entered a valid password.