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Brute Force Tool for masterkey.cryptomator Files
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I forgot my password and lost my recovery codes #1

Open hughware opened 3 months ago

hughware commented 3 months ago

I tried entering my usual password, but it still didn't work. I had to manually enter the password I tried. Is there any way to automatically try and brute force it? It's my Obsidian notebook with all my notes.I'm sad to lose it.

overheadhunter commented 3 months ago

Yes, you can bruteforce it and you have as many attempts as you want. See instructions in the README. Be aware though, that Cryptomator is bruteforce-resistant, so you need to reduce the number of guesses by attempting as few passwords as possible.

In other words, you need to know at least the password recipe, ideally some possible phrases it contains. Use any third party software of your choice to generate a list of actual passwords from this recipe and feed it to this tool.

If you can't remember any password compounds and it is sufficiently long, bruteforcing will most likely take millenia.

hughware commented 3 months ago

Thank you very much, I am using cracker-win.exe The command I ran was

 .\cracker-win.exe .\masterkey.cryptomator

But it seems to have entered a conversational command box and did not try to brute force. After my test, when the correct password is entered in the dialog box, it will return the password, otherwise it will let you continue to enter the password. I think it is me. There is something wrong with the operation method, so what should I do?

overheadhunter commented 3 months ago

The command does not generate any passwords, it just verifies the ones you feed to it. There is a detailed instruction available in this community post:

How to use of brute force tool

The important part is generating the passwords you want the tool to try. See this post for a tool recommendation.