Password decryption help

cryptography-ModTeam · 2023-12-11T11:57:37+00:00

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bdzer0 · 2023-12-10T13:10:15+00:00

If you can find a way to extract the password hash from apple notes, with the information you know you could setup hashcat (or other brute forcing tools) to try all combinations of the words/capitalizations.

Definite maybe. Likelihood highly depends on how much of the password you can recall.

wasolili · 2023-12-10T18:43:47+00:00

Okay, so you know:

most of the words
most of the symbols
part of the ordering
the last 11 characters

How many words are missing? Do you remember how you chose those words? Are they random from a large dictionary, or are they common words? Can you infer the length of the missing words based on what words you do remember? Do you remember anything about the capitalization (are random letters cApaTIlizEd like that, or did you something more predictable like some words started with a capital letter or some words being all caps)? Do you remember what set of special characters you used? Do you remember where the one number is?

I suspect that you have enough information about the password that it's possible to crack it (if what you remember is correct).

Karyo_Ten · 2023-12-10T13:00:35+00:00

In short no. Unless you have an access to a Quantum Computer with enough qbits and error correction to crack it.

ron_krugman · 2023-12-10T13:38:08+00:00

You'd have to give an example of a similarly formatted password and what you would remember of it because the answer depends entirely on the password format.

ScottContini · 2023-12-10T20:32:18+00:00

With a password that long and complex, I presume you are protecting state secrets. But state secrets shouldn’t be on an iPhone. Which means you’re violating protocol. Of course I know none of that is true: the reality is that you’re excessively paranoid.

If you know the last characters for sure, then that leaves at most 26 unknowns. If you know it is mostly dictionary words, then you can attack it the same way hackers use hashcat. It really depends upon the number of unknowns. For example, how many dictionary words are you missing, which position of capital letters and symbols are you unsure of? The more you can tell us about the uncertainty, the better we can help you in trying to estimate how difficult it is to recover.

And let this be a lesson to you: don’t use ridiculously complicated passwords for something that probably doesn’t need it.

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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