11-02-2018, 06:11 PM
(11-02-2018, 11:13 AM)jallis Wrote: Actually this is more of a data-recovery/computer forensics question than a crypto question as far as I can tell. Depending on the filesystem in use, and the current state of the the filesystem remnants it may be possible to do a full recovery of the files in question.
Yeah, you are correct about that. The thing is that basically all traditional methods of recovery that I could imagine of have been exhausted (with the exception of resorting to expensive recovery services). As nothing of value was lost, this is could be thought more of an academic exercise.. and it might even be helpful for other people who get their filesystems corrupted.
Maybe a more suitable question for this forum would be: is there any way of passing hashcat a list of salts and a list of passwords and get the resulting derived keys as the output? This way the most taxing work would be done by hashcat and I could then use the results to bruteforce my way to the stars. I doubt this is possible though without poking the source code. I guess my safest bet is to try to understand the OpenCL kernels if they're anyhow usable for my purpose.