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The story seems suspect to me. He brute-forced encrypted containers?
by Jayschwa 13y ago
The story seems suspect to me. He brute-forced encrypted containers?
- xSwag 13y agoYes, most likely the password used a common word or something else similar susceptible to being brute-forced.
- pudquick 13y agoUnlikely that it was something decent like Truecrypt volumes and more likely nested encrypted zips/RARs. Since the vast majority of these are encrypted with a simple text passcode, dictionary attacks are pretty routine against them. http://home.schmorp.de/marc/fcrackzip.html http://home.schmorp.de/marc/fcrackzip.html http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net (as two examples)
- hackinthebochs 13y agoExactly. No one nests truecrypt but people do nest zips because the filenames are still visible with the older zip "encryption" format.
- praxulus 13y agoAre Truecrypt volumes with similarly bad passwords any harder to crack?
- randyrand 13y agoNo. Good passwords are paramount.