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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.

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 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)

Neemobeer

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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)
 

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