Like an idiot I threw out my encryption hash that I wrote down when I installed my system. Any way to recover it? Nothing is wrong with my system, just thought I should write it down.
View 9 RepliesI am running the latest xubuntu and I lost my password or so I think I might be typing it wrong, is there way to recover it (easy please).
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI opened my note book. I have installed XP, Ubuntu. When I boot, I select ubuntu os. But I forgot my Password. How to recovery or reset my password?
View 4 Replies View RelatedTrueCrypt offers 3 hashes for use: RIPEMD-160, SHA-512, WHIRLPOOL.What do most people use? How does one go about deciding which one is appropriate for them? Do they differ in security or performance?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am not very security minded...I'm aware of it, and always made sure I had up-to-date overall protection in Windows but firewalls, and the blasted passwords are largely a thorn in my side!When I got my iPhone last year I suddenly discovered password managers & "wallets" to keep all that kind of information in and syncable across different devices. My life got so much easier. Of course now I need to figure out encryption keys, and how they work (I'm clueless). I also need to find a program or system that I can move my existing low-tech info (mailnly user name & passwords) that will also accomodate the increased needs of Ubuntu security and still be sync-able. I started a little research weeks ago, but my current "wallet" only exports .csv so I quit since I'm going to have to do a lot of data entry whatever I go with.So here goes:
1) what is the difference (bare bones) between using an encryption key (e.k.) vs. a standard user created password? what situations are better suited for e.k.?
2) I have seahorse (default intall with Ubuntu I guess) but the only thing in it is Login under passwords which leads to a login keyring (?) and a drop-down list of about 6-10 of the gazillon passwords I use daily. The other tabs are for keys which I don't have any concept of.
3) I know FF also "remembers" user id & passwords as you choose to have it do so. Is that information transferable into seahorse or another program?
4)I'm also (today) getting ready to really set up my system for user names & security across my little home network. How can I integrate that into whichever program/app I go with to store my pwds and keys?
5)give me links to fairly current documentation on this stuff?
6) Any program/app recommendations.Pros/cons uses, what they can & can't do or be used for, etc.
I just installed Fedora 10 on my laptop 2 days ago. I dont seem to remember the password i userd for my username. Is there a way to reset or change the password? I cannot login to the system.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhat does one do when he forgets the root password ? i still have a terminal logged in as root how can i change the password in terminall
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my ubuntu account. I am running 4 virtual machines, based on jeos-8.04 and I am using a public key authentication to login to my account (via ssh). This is not the problem, I have the key and the passphrase. But when I am logged in, I can't sudo, because I forgot the password for the accout.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI forgot my new password. I followed the guide on how to recover the password but in recovery mode my keyboard doesn't work, I have tried a usb and a ps2 keyboard. What is going on? Or is there another way to reset my password?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI've encrypted my root partition with LUKS and cannot remember my password. My main question is this: is it possible to extract the hash (or key; not sure on the correct terminology here) from the LUKS header and run it through a cracker? The hash type is SHA1 and I can remember the characters I used for the password, just not in the correct order (lots of special characters). That being said, given such a small charset, it should be crackable within a reasonable time, correct? Especially if I used a GPU accelerated cracker. What I don't know how to do is go about getting the hash from the LUKS header. Is any of this possible, or am I SOL? Of course, I have physical access to the system so I can boot it into any utilities I may need to.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am building an active directory and using BIND9 as my DNS. To allow for secure dynamic updates from the domain, I am enabling GSS-TSIG as detailed here and here. Unfortunately, some of the commands and configurations used here seem to be depreciated, at least in the newer versions that I'm using. My issue is one of keytab encryption. I generated a keytab using ktpass.exe on the Windows Server 2008 domain controller. I have tried DES/MD5, AES128/SHA1 and AES256/SHA1, each have been turned down by ktutil on the kerberos server (FreeBSD). Each time, it outputs the following error: ktutil: AES256/SHA1*: encryption type AES256/SHA1* not supported *Respective to encryption used.
I cannot find a list of suitable encryption schemes that ktutil will accept. The FreeBSD handbook details a means of producing a keytab file, but I'm not sure how to configure the Domain Controller to use the keytab.
I am looking for some software (not Tryecrypt) where I can just right click a file and it will encrypt it for me. It would be nice to unencrypt on Windows but not essential.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen 10.04 is released I'll encrypt my /home partition using luks. I've read that xts is good for hard drive encryption and aes is good for cipher encryption. I'm looking for something that is fairly secure without sacrificing a lot of speed.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to create an encrypted directory using the cfs package. So far I've only been able to create the top directory. When I want to attach an encrypted directory using
Code:
cattach directory1 directory2
get the following message in command line:
Code:
RPC: unable to receive
When i look into my /crypt directory, nothing was added there. I have no idea what could be the problem. I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
I am currently running 8.10 with full-disk (excluding /boot) encryption. I am going to be installing 10.04 on a new laptop, and I was wondering whether it supports multi-factor authentication. Specifically, I would like to have a keyfile on USB/SD memory that is required, in addition to the password, to decrypt the disk. Anyone know of a guide out there? So far my searches have turned up nil.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have installed a ubuntu 10.04 (mini iso) w/ option of root encryption. Now i need to boot without ask for passphrase, but im trying to add a luks keyfile without success.i want to use a keyfile in the /boot partition or inside the initrd (cant be in external pendrive), but ubuntu aparently dont accept a keyfile in /boot or initrd file. I know, this way isnt very security, but i just need a basic encryption.So, how to force the use of a keyfile in /boot or inside the initrd for a crypt root partition?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been using GPG keys for about a year now to send encrypted emails to family. But now I want to try and understand more, mainly on signing keys. I've read a ton of stuff, but not fully grasping the concept. So I thought I'd check my understanding people here. Please let me know if I'm wrong on something.
Signing keys seems to be just signing someone else's public key with my private(public??) key. Does that mean I don't sign my own keys? Or should I? There seem to be lots of keyservers out there, mainly I keep hearing about the MIT one and the ubuntu keyserver. Does it matter where I upload my public key? Somewhere I read that once you upload it once, it will slowly make its way to other servers. How is that possible. If someone signs my key on one server, will that also get pushed to other servers?
I've read that blowfish encryption is much faster and still safe enough to transfer files between hosts.What's the default encryption used by openSSH? (if not already blowfish)
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any available Ubuntu encryption stronger than a 4096-bit DSA PGP key that is natively supported or can be supported by Evolution?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI don't care for domain 'authentication' by an "Authority". I don't trust no one, so CA's to me are as trustworthy as the gypsy in the park.
I can use a self-signed certificate, but the problem is most browsers makers are Fn idiots that say the connection is not secure, when it actually it, but because I did not folk out cash, it makes my website look bad.
I can understand the need for a 3rd party to verify the domain host to prevent man in the middle attacks, but I do not care for this.. and browser makers should take more responsibility and introduce different padlocks for types of authentication, rather than saying "this connection is encrypted, but not secure because its self-signed". What a load of horse s***!
How many times does people stop to read certificate authorities? I sure don't. I only care weather or not the connection has been encrypted.. so, I am looking for a way for simply providing encryption for my website.
From what I understand, when you submit a CSR to a CA, it includes the private key, meaning that the CA would be able to see the encrypt data, should they get hold of it. This is not acceptable for me.
Is there anything other way to use encryption other than the SSL model that is used typically amongst HTTPS browsers today?
I have a problem using PGP encryption. I am running Windows 7 operating system. I have PGP working perfectly fine when running manually through DOS mode (cmd.exe): gpg -ase --always-trust --batch --passphrase myphrase --output c: estdir estfile.csv.pgp -r someword c:estdir estfile.csv
Now the problem happens when I am trying to run same script in Perl in the browser (Perl + IIS are installed locally on my PC). The error I am getting is: gpg: no default secret key: No secret key gpg: C:\testdir\testfile.csv: sign+encrypt failed: No secret key
From what I understand, the secret key is created under my user profile. IIS runs under some default user name, so it does not see the secret key. I am not sure how to solve this problem.
i have found this xor encryption program
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAX_SIZE 256
[code]....
Its working fine, it can encrypt and decrypt. but how strong is it ? is it all depending on the specified key ?
When I installed, I selected the option to encrypt my home folder. I believe this is causing constant crashes now, since error message is user id/password related. Is there a way to remove the encryption?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI would like a seamless way of having personal files encrypted (at this point I am only worried about the home directory) and synchronize these files between different computers and with an external hd.
So far my partial solution is:
1) Default Ubuntu eCryptfs solution;
2) Unison to synchronize between the upper layers of both computers via ssh (operating on the /home/$USER mounted by ecryptfs) and also between one computer and the external HD;
3) Don't know about the external hd.
Reasons:
- I don't want any pain about data loss or data leak if my hardware gets stolen;
- Data in /tmp, /var and swap are not that important for me right now;
- It is very important to synchronize fast, incrementally and properly: propagating deletions rather than reverting and detecting change-change/change-delete conflicts before miss-propagating changes, which as far as I know only Unison is good at;
- Even if I could set the same passphrase on both computers (I guess I can, but Ubuntu does not offer me to choose the ecryptfs passphrase) I want to see the true filenames that are being synchronized;
- If possible I would like to simplify the whole scheme so that each computer is doing its own job seamlessly, and operating on the upper decrypted layer looks simple and robust;
- I would like a more general and easy-to-use scheme for the external device, so other folks use it too;
- If possible I would like ext4 backups, so it remembers file permissions etc... however it would be nice to be able to open it from Windows.
Are (1) and (2) above really good solutions or am I missing something? What are the best solutions for (3)? So far I have seen cryptsetup/palimpset and truecrypt. The more native and floss the better, but being crossplatform is nice. What are the pros and cons, and what's their relation to FreeOTFE and other Windows tools?
Is there any way to remove the whole disk encryption without reinstalling? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to encrypt the entire drive and not be prompted for the passphrase?
I have a request for a demo of our application and I am looking to create a virtual for VMware's player but need to make sure that the vmdk file cannot be mounted and files pulled from it to protect us from reverse engineering of the application.
For some reason I can't find any documentation re: the algorithm(s) used by Ubuntu to encrypt the filesystem... Anyone know what it is?? AES?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to do a reinstall (read the details here): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1703381 but I need to be able to access my home directory which is encrypted. Is there a way to decrypt my home folder, so that I don't get into trouble accessing it later on?
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