Hi! I forgot a password for an dm-crypt encrypted partition and would like to try to break the encryption by brute force. Therefore I have some questions. Are there incompatibilities between old dm-crypt and LUKS or is it possible to mount an old partition which is encrypted with dm-crypt (no LUKS!) in an up-to-date distributions? Tools like John the Ripper are great for cracking hashed passwords. Is it possible to extract a hash out of a partition which can be used for such attacks as John the Ripper do? If so, do you have any reference how to execute this task? Otherwise, I would need to try to mount the partition with each potential password which would be quite slow. Do you have any suggestions how to speed up this process? Regards Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
