This is a quite old topic, but it is related to HP SFPs, so I decided to refresh it and write about my HP related issue here...
A general goal is to clone HP J9151A SFP.
First of all I bought an original HP to get it's content and check what hardware is under J9151A SFP:
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As you can see it is Source Photonics hardware, so I bought a bunch of these hoping these are MSA standard with well known write password or in worst case scenario I will be able to brute force it. This is an untouched Source Photonics:
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HP J9151A is a bit different SFP model - SPP-10E-LR-CDF
F (10km range) instead of my "clean" SPP-10E-LR-CDF
P (2km range).
I have a 3rd party clone of J9151E, which content looks exactly as HP/Source Photonics, but hardware looks quite different:
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Then I spent more than 2 weeks trying to brute force Source Photonics SFP (ASCII letters, number and special chars, A2h,7Bh). Unfortunately with no success.
So, I am looking for anyone with any experience for Source Photonics SFPs or any other hint. If you wanna try some tricks on your own, I can probably send you 1 or 2 Source Photonics SFP, I got a lot of these.
I am also wonder how 3rp party SFPs with HP's original content was prepared. I got an non OEM, regular Finisar LR FTLX1471D3BCL and tried to use it for cloning. I can write to this one (standard password), but HP switch did not accept my cloned SFP :-/