SavorySilicon
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I have lost my password to my Aomei Backupper Backup.ADI file. How do I open it with a 3rd party program? I encrypted it, and password protected it. Is there a program such as john the ripper that can do that? Thanks.
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The original poster is seeking advice on recovering a password-protected Aomei Backupper backup file, wondering if third-party tools like John the Ripper can help. Respondent explains that the password acts as a symmetric key, and typical password-guessing tools require a hash, which isn't readily available for this encryption method. They suggest that without a specific utility or scripting capability, recovering the password is challenging, but if Aomei offers a command-line tool, custom scripting might be possible. Overall, the tone is informative, emphasizing the technical difficulty and possible avenues for password recovery.
The original poster is seeking advice on recovering a password-protected Aomei Backupper backup file, wondering if third-party tools like John the Ripper can help. Respondent explains that the password acts as a symmetric key, and typical password-guessing tools require a hash, which isn't readily available for this encryption method. They suggest that without a specific utility or scripting capability, recovering the password is challenging, but if Aomei offers a command-line tool, custom scripting might be possible. Overall, the tone is informative, emphasizing the technical difficulty and possible avenues for password recovery.
Solution
The password is the symmetric key used to encrypt the backup and I am not aware of any tool that will help you. There are password guessing utilities such as JtR or Hashcat, but they need a hash to work with. Since Aoemi isn't a common system to crack there are no helper XtoJohn utility scripts that I'm aware of.
If you can script at all and aoemi has a cli tool for decrypting you could hunt for a utility that generates permuations of words (assuming you have an idea of the password or it's length) you could generate a list and feed it to a custom script (assuming there is a cli method to decrypt a backup)
If you can script at all and aoemi has a cli tool for decrypting you could hunt for a utility that generates permuations of words (assuming you have an idea of the password or it's length) you could generate a list and feed it to a custom script (assuming there is a cli method to decrypt a backup)