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Question

I forgot my pfo file

Mar 30, 2015 7:29PM PDT

Hello I have a pfo file (pismo file mount )
and i have forgot my password please help me how to find my password my password includes just numbers and its not very complex

Thank you all

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Re: pismo
Mar 30, 2015 8:02PM PDT

Since this is primarily is a program that makes a file (zip or iso) accessible under a drive letter: no problem. Just dismount and you have all information still in the original file to re-access.

If you used the encryption feature to make an encrypted virtual disk to store sensitive data, just start with 1 and keep trying until you are at this (not very long, you tell) integer. Or send the file to lostpassword.com and pay them to do it.

Things like this is why we recommend to keep an unencrypted backup copy of your encrypted files somewhere else.

Kees

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Encrypted
Mar 30, 2015 8:17PM PDT

Thank you
for your answers do you know any program which can help me doing thish

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the file has a password
Mar 30, 2015 8:20PM PDT

Hello the file has password which contains just numbers (integers)
do you know any software which can help me

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If it was so easy ...
Mar 30, 2015 8:41PM PDT

it would be a bad encryption. That's why you might need a paid specialist.

Kees

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what should i do
Mar 30, 2015 9:15PM PDT

OK that site does not support pfo files
do know any cracker?
which i can give a password list to it and it find the password?

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help me
Mar 30, 2015 9:17PM PDT

do you know any program or other passwords? which can help me?!

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help me
Mar 30, 2015 9:18PM PDT

do you know any program which can crack it for me?
lostpassword does not support pfo files i just need a cracker for it

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help me
Mar 30, 2015 9:20PM PDT

lostpassword.com doesnt support pfo files
and do know any cracker which can help me ? i have good password lists thank you

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Re: cracker
Mar 30, 2015 10:12PM PDT

- What did pismo say when you asked them?
- What were the results of your google search for (variations of) PISMO CRACK?

I'm afraid nobody here can help you, so you've got to help yourself.

Kees

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Help!
Mar 31, 2015 2:44AM PDT

1- pismo said we cant do anything for you
2-i found nothing for psimo cracker

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Ouch.
Mar 31, 2015 2:55AM PDT

Now you know why everyone tells you to backup. Not only that but backup "IN THE CLEAR" without a password protected vault system. It's your files, so your choice on backup of what you can't lose.

http://www.pismotechnic.com/support/

Maybe this is a great system. That is, if they can't crack it, it's secure!
Bob

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noch!
Mar 31, 2015 4:30AM PDT

but i just want a password cracker
for example a program which can help me CRACK for example it check a list of numbers for this files numbers between 1 to 9999999

just this

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You may have to write a script to do that.
Mar 31, 2015 4:40AM PDT

In pseudo code it's as simple as

for i = 1 to 99999999
pkunzip -passowrd i -f test.pfo.zip
if check for resutls = OK, exit
next i

So well under 10 lines of code so a great first program or script for you to tackle.
Bob

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thanks
Mar 31, 2015 4:50AM PDT

Can you give me a program for doing that? thank you
just please give me .exe file or any famous program which can do this for me? thank you

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Sorry
Mar 31, 2015 4:56AM PDT

But such is a great first program or script for you to write today. I supplied 4 lines of what is known as pseudo code (read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode) or concept code. Maybe you have a programmer friend or maybe you can get someone to flush it out for you on DaniWeb or CodeProject (web sites.)
Bob

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PS. John the Ripper.
Mar 31, 2015 5:50AM PDT

Noted at http://www.openwall.com/john/ included Brute Force. Either it will do that out of the gate or hopefully allow you to give it the clue of it's all numbers within a range.

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Look for a PIN code cracker
Mar 31, 2015 5:44AM PDT

And expand the program to more than 4 digits.

It could be easier than that. I cracked AOL's password program used 15 years ago for a legitimate reason and it was unbelievably easy. I saw the encrypted password was twice the size of regular password, so knew it was a two character code for each. I couldn't believe they used something that obvious. I made bogus usernames like "aaaaaaaaa" then "eeeeeeeee" and "iiiiiiiiiiii", "oooooooo" and so forth and located those double characters for the first 10 places I needed. It was only a short step beyond that to realize each next letter in a password used it's own unique double sliding ruler method of encryption. (one ruler in middle, slie the top, then the bottom, the top and bottom characters match the hacked character, therefore the other characters in a password are also then available. Hopefully they've managed to move to something better since that was about 15 years ago. I was then able to recover the AOL account I wanted, which my daughter had lost her password to.

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help me
Apr 22, 2015 9:14PM PDT

does any body have another idea?

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If anybody could help you ...
Apr 22, 2015 10:29PM PDT

that means your encrypted data shouldn't be safe, because then anybody could read them once they had access to your PC. So trust the product you bought and be assured it can't be cracked. Your data are safe! Nobody who doesn't know that password can ever access them.

Kees

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I see Kees explained it well.
Apr 23, 2015 12:30AM PDT

About you can do is enlist help and pay those that crack such. I take it you let John the Ripper loose on it.
Bob