How to decrypt a password from SQL server?

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I have this query in sql server 2000:

select pwdencrypt('AAAA')

which outputs an encrypted string of 'AAAA':

0x0100CF465B7B12625EF019E157120D58DD46569AC7BF4118455D12625EF019E157120D58DD46569AC7BF4118455D

How can I convert (decrypt) the output from its origin (which is 'AAAA')?

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