[Cialug] Encryption Questions

[Josh More]

There's a decent HOWTO here:
http://www.cybercrimetech.com/2014/08/how-to-brute-forcing-password-cracking.html

However, if you typically choose mediocre to good passwords, don't
expect success in 2015.

-Josh

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an external hard drive that I was using on a previous computer. I
> chucked the old computer and built a new one. Now that I have the external
> hard drive hooked up again, I have discovered that I apparently encrypted
> the filesystem on it, using LUKS. Due to the wonders of context-sensitive
> memory, I don't remember what the password to it was.
>
> Where would I start in figuring out how to crack this thing? I have time
> and resources.
>
> --
> Todd
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