Hi
I haven’t used encryption previously but through that for better security, I would enable it on one of my disks. I went though the process and when done, copied data to the device etc. My house had a powercut the other day and I noticed that the device did not mount automatically upon restart.
Unfortunately, I have forgotten the de-cryption password and have lost access to my data. Is there a way of either recovering my password or getting the partition to mount without the password so I can access the data, copy/back up and then re-create the partition without encryption?
Thank you for reading and any replies are most appreciated!
It would not have been very good encryption if you could recover the password or mount without one, now would it.
On 2011-02-06 17:06, badger fruit wrote:
> Unfortunately, I have forgotten the de-cryption password and have lost
> access to my data. Is there a way of either recovering my password or
> getting the partition to mount without the password so I can access the
> data, copy/back up and then re-create the partition without encryption?
No way - unless you made a backup copy.
Perhaps if you have a superfastandbigcomputernode you can have a go at
bruteforcing passwords, million after million tries.
Ask on the dark circles… maybe someone knows how and hasn’t told anybody.
And maybe you can convince that chap to share the trick with you.
Perhaps a few thousand dollars can help.
I hope not. >:-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)