Calling all crackers

[plural]

I need a good public/private key encryption brute force tool to crack WindowsXP EFS,
cause dumb ass me forgot to decrypt a some of my files before formatting the harddrive.
[I did most of them but forgot a few in a remote subdirectory]

If you know of anything that might work
please give me a heads up

Thanks

Comments

[iamjosh.livejournal.com]

what kinda files?

[plural.livejournal.com]

photographs mostly

Re:

[iamjosh.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. guess I haven't run into that problem not sure exactly how the XP Security works I guess.. Try jumping on kazza and grabbing Passware. Or I can E-mail it to you if you can't find it.. has lots of cracking / password "tools" maybe there is something in that to help ya.. shows how often i need to break into things huh?

-j

[plural.livejournal.com]

will try that thanks

[ex-thehat388.livejournal.com]

Can you program? Do you know how to write a program that performs the sieve of Aristonstenes(sp?)? Do you know the general idea behind using large hard-to-factor numbers as a key?

Also, there may be easier ways to hack the pw. If there is a simplified set of characters (checksum) that makes several passwords work for each possible password then your problem is much easier. I found out earlier this year that 11 of the first 12 (I think it was 11 of 12, maybe 13 of 14) of the characters in the password of an excel spreadsheet are recorded in binary using only 'A' and 'B'. This makes it easy to write a routine that tests all possibilities in a relatively short amount of time.

Truthfully, I know more about the theory than actual hacking because I'm not an expert programmer, but my theory has been enough to help those on the programming side get around a few problems including unlocking office email and spreadsheets.

[ex-petra476.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's Eratothenes.

-the local greek

[plural.livejournal.com]

nah this isnt a password hack

I have the password what I need is to get past the SID associate with the file

its pretty ugly actually

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

why in the world do you thing a southern redneck might have any knowledge at all of Encryption?

[plural.livejournal.com]

hunh?

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

crack·er ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krkr)
n.
1. A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.
2. One that cracks, especially:
a. A firecracker.
b. A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.
c. The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.
d. One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.
3. Offensive.
a. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States.
b. Used as a disparaging term for a white person.


sorry, I've gotten very little sleep lately, and it seems to be affecting my sense of humor proportionately.

[plural.livejournal.com]

ahhhh

of course they are missing a definition, that being a person who cracks code/encryption/software for fun and profit

Re:

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

they may be, but I'm not...

For some reason I thought that feigning the ignorance of the homophone to underscore the clearly divergent uses of the word might be amusing.

I guess I was wrong.

[plural.livejournal.com]

actually it would have been
if I caught the reference
*grin*
unfortunately
I am as always a dullard

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[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah... that's what I think when I think plural... 'dullard'.