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glv2 / bruteforce-luks

Try to find the password of a LUKS encrypted volume.
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Doesn't work with Tails persistent volumes. #20

Closed NerdENerd closed 6 years ago

NerdENerd commented 6 years ago

I wrote a program to generate a dictionary file based on what I remember about the password. I was 100% sure that my password was in that file with 200 thousand possible combinations of passwords. But when I ran bruteforce-luks over that file it didn't find the password in the dumped LUKS header from my USB drive.

I cloned my Tails installation to another USB stick and created a persistence volume with a password of password1. I then created a dictionary file that contained password1 but it still did not find the password.

I have attached the LUKS header file that has a password of password1. luksheader.zip

NerdENerd commented 6 years ago

Works fine in Ubuntu under VMware but doesn't in Ubuntu from the Windows store under the Windows subsystem for Linux.