On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:22:36PM +0100, Jan Christoph Uhde wrote: > 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? > * 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? > * 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 > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- 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
