good pointJacob Mansfield
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On 16 October 2010 05:00, Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard@mindspring.com> wrote:


On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:39:33 +0100

Mansfield wrote:



> and data still cannot leak out of a post it stuck on the back of your

> monitor!

> Jacob Mansfield

> Programmer



Sure, it can. *The Wife (www.suziepaints.com) and I painted at night for

a plumbing business recently (we know the owner) and, while there, I

gathered up 25 *AIX usernames and passwords from post its on monitor

backs and keyboard bottoms that I later passed to the boss just so he

would know how easy it can be. *He regularly has cleaning crews in at

night and had no idea that the employees were keeping those in such

insecure places.

Just think, had /one/ cleaner done the same thing then /all/ the data

could have leaked out.



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I have a file that has a password on it... I don't recall the password.
Is there a away to get the

password back?

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Matt wrote:
> I have a file that has a password on it... I don't recall the
> password. Is there a away to get the
> password back?

I'm not sure what you mean, but I suppose you have a file that is
password protected. It should not be possible to access such a file
without knowing the password, after all that is the purpose of password
protecting files. However for some file types the protection is not
secure and they can be cracked. Maybe someone can help you further, if
you tell us what file type it is.


Nils

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On 16/05/12 12:16, Matt wrote:
I have a file that has a password on it... I don't recall the
password. Is there a away to get the

password back?


Most probably not - unless you go and get some professional help (for
which you will pay) to have the encrypted password stored on your
computer decrypted .


However, I really don't think that you are asking about the password
itself but actually asking if you can access the file without the
forgotten password.


This could be possible because you may be able to *copy* that file to
somewhere - for example to an external HDD or an USB memory card.


The question here is: how have you encrypted this file? Is this file
simply sitting in an encrypted /home directory, for example, or sitting
on an HDD where the whole filesystem is encrypted?


Please give clear details about how this file is protected by a password
- ie, what sort of encrypting method did you use?


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On 16 May 2012 03:16, Matt <mkraner@kraner.us> wrote:
> I have a file that has a password on it... I don't recall the password. Is
> there a away to get the
> password back?

It *should* be exceptionally difficult to reverse engineer the
password. After all, that's the whole point of encrypting the file.
Saying that, some encryption methods are flawed (or just not very good
to begin with - old passworded Zip files for example were trivial to
circumvent).

What is the file encrypted with? Is it a specific file format (7z,
rar, zip, gpg, pgp, etc.)?

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