On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:21:26AM +0000, wucherpfennig wrote: > First: I'm sorry for this strange topic behaviour, but I don't know how to > write real answers (I tried in the test list, but didn't work either). > > >I gahther this is a new installation and you would only lose > >a few hours of configuration work, correct? > > No. It was a fully working installtion. I wouldn't car that much about > this problem, but I wanted to backup my stuff last weeekend (old backup > was messed up). So basicly I'm standing here without any backup from the > last few years... So you unlocked it sucessfully a number of times and suddenly this does not work anymore? Any changes, like a different keyboard? > >For example if > >you have, say, 12 characters and 9 of them are the same on most > >keymaps, then you could try a direct brute force. > > I had the same idea last night. although my password is about 20 > characters long a brute force attack shouldn't take too long, because > there are 4 special Chars [eg ()_-] and 8 numbers. Letters shouldn't be > the problem, numbers too... Letters, except 'y' and 'z'. Numbers should be the same. Specials you will have to try some alternatives. Sounds doable. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
