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encfs-password-recover

EncFS Password Recovery Tool

This is a password recovery tool for EncFS. If you lost your own password, but you know the base words, this might help you out.

Usage:

(I think. The original instructions were a bit vauge, so I'm interpreting a bit.)

There are two ways to generate the password list. One is to edit the COMBS file and put fragments of what you thought the password contained in that file. Then run encfs-password-genpwlist.py to generate a list of passwords to try.

The other is to add a known words to the file called KNOWWORDS. Then run encfs-password-genrandom.sh to generate the password list.

You only do one of these or the other.

Personally, I think the first method works better. I didn't quite get the KNOWWORDS method.

When you have your list of passwords (called ownpasslist in the instructions below), you then need to run encfs-password-recover.sh to try out the varous possibilities. You do this as a second step regardless of how you generated the password list above.

Here are the original instructions:

1.) Generate your 'ownpasslist' to file

a.) Edit the COMBS file to suit your suspected password. The sample included is for "#EncFS$Rec@ver!123"
Test generator with demo key
Go to step 2.) and skip b.)
b.) Add your known word to KNOWWORDS file
See: encfs-password-genrandom.sh -h and use this tool
Run encfs-password-genrandom.sh 10000 10 > ownpasslist
Skip 2.)

2.) Run the python password generator

python encfs-password-genpwlist.py > ownpasslist

3.) Run the recovery tool

encfs-password-recover.sh ~/path/to/encfs ~/path/to/decrypted ~/path/to/ownpasslist

Demo from start to finish

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/blackPantherOS/encfs-password-recover.git
cd encfs-password-recover
./encfs-password-recover.sh /tmp/encfs-password-recover/enc /tmp/encfs-password-recover/denc /tmp/encfs-password-recover/pwlist

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