Forgot password to .dmg file

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Forgot password to .dmg file

I created a a password protected .dmg file and used 256-bit encryption.

Since then, I forgot the password. How hard are these files to crack and how would I go about doing it?

Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Feb 9, 2008 3:33 PM

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Answer 1

xnav

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Feb 9, 2008 3:38 PM in response to Bob1689

http://www.dekart.com/howto/howtodisk_encryption/howto_recover_lostpassword/

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Answer 2

baltwo

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Feb 9, 2008 3:55 PM in response to Bob1689

More than likely, you can kiss the .dmg gone.

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Answer 3

Curly15

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Feb 11, 2008 3:41 PM in response to Bob1689

If you can crack it, please post your solution.
If you have an idea what the password is, you can use a password guessing program.
If you know the length of the password, you can try xnav's option.
If you know none of this, you can try to crack it; if its a password of any strength however, you'll probably be out of luck (unless you have several years to try).
good luck

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