03-31-2017, 07:07 PM
Hi all,
I just finished the upgrade / new installation from El Captain to macOS Sierra, when I connected my external backup / TimeMachine disk I am asked a password.
In my rush I totally forgot to backup my login.keychain where the password to the encrypted backup disk was saved or better, it is also on the encrypted backup. Basically all my personal life and work is stored there and my attempt to guess the password has failed so far.
I am somewhat certain that the password is a combination of my name, year and some upper / lower case letter as well as 2 or 3 special characters I always use.
I read through the forums and the documentation but can not quite figure out how to get started. I already installed the git version of hashcat.
1. How do I create a hash of the backup disk?
2. What would be the recommended way of trying to recover the password? Should I make an image of the disk first?
Thank you so much
Andreas
I just finished the upgrade / new installation from El Captain to macOS Sierra, when I connected my external backup / TimeMachine disk I am asked a password.
In my rush I totally forgot to backup my login.keychain where the password to the encrypted backup disk was saved or better, it is also on the encrypted backup. Basically all my personal life and work is stored there and my attempt to guess the password has failed so far.
I am somewhat certain that the password is a combination of my name, year and some upper / lower case letter as well as 2 or 3 special characters I always use.
I read through the forums and the documentation but can not quite figure out how to get started. I already installed the git version of hashcat.
1. How do I create a hash of the backup disk?
2. What would be the recommended way of trying to recover the password? Should I make an image of the disk first?
Thank you so much
Andreas