[Wrangler]

Hey everybody,

i've got the following problem and would really appreciate if you could give me a hint how to solve it.

I have very important data stored in a Mac OS X encrypted disk image, but i forgot the password. Please don't tell that this was stupid, i were punished enough already.

So the task is now to recover this password.

I found a tool, that is able to automatically try a wordlist out of a text file. It can try about 120 words/ minute, which is a really low number, i know.

There is one good thing though. I remember a lot of the password, but not everything, so that i thought i could work with placeholders.

I found a tool called Crunch on Sourceforge that claims to do exactly that, but i did not have a lot of luck yet.

The password looks something like this: 4*.****__**!tv_**?

So the * stand for letters, which i probably know, but i do not know whether they are spelled Upper or lower case.

One Problem more is that all those * Letters are different, so i would need 9 different placeholders. Crunch just offers 1 more or less. I am not a coder or anything near that, but i dived into the C Code and changed the four Placeholders the programmer declared in the beginning to a upper case and a lowercase letter, so the key set only consists out of 2 letters now.

The problem is that i still have just 4 different ones.

Hope you did understand what i mean.

Do you have any other idea how to do that or any program, which is able to do that?

I would really appreciate some help.

Thank you guys!

[E-Oreo]

You can write a pretty short script in pretty much any language to do that, but C is not a good language for a non-programmer to jump into and try to write a simple script of any kind.

For example with PHP:

<?php

$passwords = array(4);

function add($set) {
  global $passwords;
  $new_passwords = array();
  for($i = 0; $i < strlen($set); $i++) {
    foreach($passwords as $password) {
      $new_passwords[] = $password . $set[$i];
    }
  }
  $passwords = $new_passwords;
}

add('ABC');
add('.');
add('123');
add('AB');

echo "<pre>";
echo implode("\n", $passwords);