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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:29:26 -0700
From: Jeff Keller <jakeller@...r.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Reward for saving my 15 years of photos
Just to throw this out there in case someone has an idea: at some point,
my entire Aperture database was on my NAS drive. That was too slow, so I
moved it back to my local hard drive (which was wiped when I sold the
old computer), which is how it ended up getting into the encrypted
backup.
What I'm wondering is that since the NAS drive is 3TB that *perhaps* the
aperture library could be recovered. I tried setting up some tools in
Ubuntu (via vmware) that can try to recover files, but I could never get
it to fully compile. Is anyone familiar with these EXT2FS recovery tools
(or have other suggestions)? This would sure be easier than trying to
break the encryption!
- Jeff
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Jeff Keller
Senior Writer, dpreview.com
> Thousands of my treasured photos are stuck on an encrypted sparsebundle DMG file from a Time Machine backup. I?ve worked with magnum to gain support for the format and extract the hash (thanks magnum!), but neither of us have been able to get the password. I?m offering $3000 (via Paypal) to whomever can crack the code so I can retrieve the contents. I work for DPReview.com (world?s largest digital photography site, owned by Amazon) and formerly ran DCResource.com for 15 years, so I?m actual employed person who can pay the reward. My employer is not involved in this project. The password is NOT a random string of characters. It?s likely common words (which I?ve provided via the link below) with certain characters swapped out. It?s probably between 6-12 characters.
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