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Brute force a DMG file (256-AES)

€8-1000 EUR

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Posted about 5 years ago

€8-1000 EUR

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In short: you know that moment when you want to encrypt your file, but want it to be totally safe and secure, and you come up with a total new, long and above all random password. Well I do the same for most of my stuff, until lastly: I was under huge time pressure and wanted everything to be secure, so I made a DMG-file on my MacBook and secured it. Several weeks later, when I wanted to re-use my file I noticed that my first attempt was without any success. So I thought of a typo and re-entered. Again, no success. Again, thinking no bad: I re-entered the password slowly and securely. Again, no success. Until after some point and trying to come up with other combinations of what I thought was my password, I realized: I had never used this password before and had lost it. Of course, in such a case, one refers to Google. However, with my basic knowledge in encrypting I knew: decrypting a 256-AES password is nearly impossible. At least not without knowing key elements of the password, some kind of supercomputer and a lot of knowledge of decryption (or at least Linux for JTR). So becoming desperate, I tried several solutions, since these files were important for me and I had to get back in. All without success, until a friend of mine referred me to this website. This is one of my last solutions. I have not used JTR, because I didn't make it through the installment procedure, with the terminals and directories, it didn't make much sense to me. I am hoping that someone is able to brute force this password, but it contains sensitive information. So before starting the procedure I will need to ensure a way to do this properly and not losing all the sensitive information. I have read a lot about this topic and know by now it is pretty hard to do this job, but I'm not waiting around for people to tell me that again. Any valuable input however, is appreciated!
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Hey mate, as you know it would take lots of time get the result so I won't tell you steps or anything. I can just say I can start brute force for you and the rest is about your computer speed. Also I can try some other little tricks.
€450 EUR in 10 days
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Hi. Curiosity brought me here because I thought "impossible", but reading the description, you know it. I'm fond of security. I've heard countless stories like this, especially in the bitcoin world where people would need a passphrase for their wallet. Your best luck would be to automate the typo solution: from the passphrase you think is right, derivate a lot of passphrases, that are just ONE CHAR away from it. A complex solution would involve markov chains to generate a likely typo'ed passphrase. People had success with this method. Obviously only if you're 90% sure it's a password near the passphrase you have, and that you didn't copy a wrong passphrase from a wordlist ;) Maybe you could even post this as a contest on Reddit ? If it would be a wallet, lots of people would be interested to crack it :)
€222 EUR in 10 days
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Hi, I'm a software developer with over 5 years of experience currently pursuing my Master's in data science from Trinity College Dublin. I recently worked on cracking password hashes and used jtr and hashcat. I'm very much familiar with these tools and hence would like to help you with this task. Thanks, Tousif
€560 EUR in 5 days
5.0 (4 reviews)
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