recover old crypt partition
Hello,
i'd like to recover an old encrypted partition:
The following problems occur:
* Only a big part of the password is known
** It has 17 or 19 signs 13 are known and 1 sing is perpended and 3 appended form a set of 5 candidates.
* The algorithem is unkown
** I guess it was the standard back in 2003 - 2005. I tried with the last point from the FAQ - no luck so far
* I had to switch my terminal from utf8 to iso-8859-15 when i mounted my disk the last times ** this is probably the biggest problem
I am glad about any advice or script that might help me. The disk is one of the last non-sata disks and i guess i should do it soon:)
best regards,
jan
Quoted 8 lines · Jan Christoph Uhde
Hello,
i'd like to recover an old encrypted partition:The following problems occur:
* Only a big part of the password is known
** It has 17 or 19 signs 13 are known and 1 sing is perpended and 3 appended form a set of 5 candidates.
"sign"? Do you mean "character"? If so, 13 known, 6 unknown and another 4 from 5 possibilities gives you 256^6 * 5^4 = 1.76*10^17 possibilities, which is a bit outside of what you can just try. Anything more known about the uunknowen ones?
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* The algorithem is unkown
** I guess it was the standard back in 2003 - 2005. I tried with the last point from the FAQ - no luck so far
Is this plain dm-crypt?
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* I had to switch my terminal from utf8 to iso-8859-15 when i mounted my disk the last times
** this is probably the biggest problem
That would surprise me. Seems rather trivial in comparison.
Well, I think this will require serious work and serious computation.
Arno
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I am glad about any advice or script that might help me. The disk is one of the last non-sata disks and i guess i should do it soon:)
best regards,
jan
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