Is there an application for Suse, that can Crack a password on a Sans USB drive. I have lost the password, or didn’t write it down, now I need to open this USB to see the encrypted drive contents. What are my choices, I really don’t want to wipe the disk?
I doubt this is an allowed subject on these forums. Any attempts to do illegal cracks are not to be discussed here.
So it is my disk, why would this be not allowed? The government and Law Enforcement does it all the time, so why can’t I run a crack program to find out my own lost password on my own **** equipment …
It may be your device, but how can we know? How do yo want to prove it without having the password?
It will be easiest just to wipe and reformat the disk, I will lose some stuff, but it is not critical information, but I didn’t want to lose it. Thanks for your input anyway.
On 2014-02-01 18:46, cherock1254 wrote:
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> Is there an application for Suse, that can Crack a password on a
> Sans USB drive. I have lost the password, or didn’t write it down, now I
> need to open this USB to see the encrypted drive contents. What are my
> choices, I really don’t want to wipe the disk?
These forums have very strict rules. Even if it is your own device, the
same advice would help someone googling for a method to do the same on a
disk that is not his own. I did not make the rules, I don’t know if I
agree with them, but they are the rules. I’ll stay this side of the
border 
Anyway, I don’t have knowledge on the “black arts”.
There is knowledge that is included in the man pages included in the
distribution, which means that it was verified by the openSUSE legal
team. I guess we can safely talk about that.
What kind of password is that?
Hard disks have a hardware password, part of the “ATA Security Feature
Set”. If you display the “hdparm” man page and seek for exactly that
phrase you will find it. In fact, that is about all I know about the
feature.
I’m guessing it is this kind of password your disk is using.
To my knowledge, it is unbreakable. Of course, I strongly suspect that
others can break it.
I don’t clearly know if it is a lock, or if it is full disk hardware
encryption. If it is a lock, the manufacturer can bypass it. I guess.
Once a friend accidentally bricked a disk this way, and I was unable to
find a way to break it. Fortunately… Well, what he was doing was using
a Windows software to “secure erase” the disk, and as part of the
procedure it applied a password. The computer crashed and the disk was
bricked. Fortunately, restarting the procedure succeeded, because it
used the same hardcoded password.
If you google the subject, you will find commercial software that claim
to be able to crack or unset this password (from Windows). I don’t know
if it is true. It is also possible that the disk manufacturer has a
service for this, and it is legal - at least in my country. Same as when
you lose your house keys and call in a key specialist to open it for you.
You should google for your brand of disk and password or similar string.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:46:01 +0000, cherock1254 wrote:
> hcvv;2621312 Wrote:
>> I doubt this is an allowed subject on these forums. Any attempts to do
>> illegal cracks are not to be discussed here.
>
> So it is my disk, why would this be not allowed? The government and Law
> Enforcement does it all the time, so why can’t I run a crack program to
> find out my own lost password on my own **** equipment …
It’s not really a question of it not being allowed, it’s (as hcvv said)
about (a) us knowing that someone making a claim is looking for a legal
way to accomplish this and owns the device - and that they’re being
truthful, and (b) not providing an environment where discussion of
activities that are legally questionable (assuming the person asking the
question doesn’t own the device).
While the possibility of the forums being held liable for helping someone
illegally access protected information are small, it’s not worth the risk
to us, so we just don’t allow discussions on cracking to be held on our
forums. The same holds true for cracking WEP/WPA passwords as well,
which people have asked for help here as well.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
I think it is clear now to everybody where we stand. I will close trhe thread. So please no further posting.