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Deploy encrypted password on Windows 10 without key
I've previously been using mkpasswd to encrypt a password on Linux, and piping it to chpasswd to set the password of a new user.
I run mkpasswd standalone on a machine:
$ printf "s£cr3t" | ...
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Kali Linux Hashing Algorithm
I'm a junior penetration tester student, learning many new things in cyber security and putting as much of it in practice as I can. I was practicing some hash identifying and cracking, and as I was ...
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Securing username and password passed as Environment variable
Username and Password are passed as plain text as environment variable while running a bash script from a existing process. using following command.
sudo -u someuser USERNAME=abc PASSWORD=xyz /path/to/...
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How to decrypt Google Chrome Login Data file (Linux)
My /home filesystem was corrupted due to a faulty SATA cable recently, and fsck sent a bunch of files to lost+found. After this, Google Chrome lost all remembered passwords. Fortunately, I had backed ...
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Increase Time to Brute Force Luks Full Disk Encryption
I want to increase the time it would take to brute force my full disc encryption. I’m on Ubuntu and encrypted with Luks on installation. I have read that I would use the following command to make it ...
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Password prompt when accessing a personal certificate in Firefox
When importing a personal certificate (for digital signatures and identification on government websites) into Firefox I get asked for the password to decrypt the private key. However when using this ...
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After unlocking the encrypted disks, my server enters emergency mode. I lost the root password to access it. Is there a way to reset it?
First off, I've been looking into this question for quite a while, but it seems that finding a solution in near impossible.
So here's the deal:
I have an encrypted LVM setup, multiple drives fused ...
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GPG2 Asks for password even with --passphrase specified
I'm trying to script a gpg decryption, and as such need to provide the password on the command line. According to the man page, there are three ways to do this: read from a file using --passphrase-...
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Ubuntu change the passphrase on a ecryptfs home directory
I'm having some trouble with ecryptfs. Here's what's happened so far:
I had an encrypted home directory, via ecryptfs. It worked fine.
I changed my username and moved my home directory. Porting the ...
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Multiple encrypted LVM volumes with one password
I found a similar question here but it's only partially connected with my question. Currently I have one primary /boot partition and a single LVG1 group with 2 logical encrypted volumes - LV1 and LV2. ...
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What is $1$ level encryption in crypt (/etc/shadow)
The first character after the user name in /etc/shaddow, is the type of encryption used.
http://www.lamolabs.org/blog/10670/how-is-my-password-stored-in-linux/
So:
$5$ means SHA256
$6$ means ...
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"Panic Password" on Linux
I run Linux on my netbook with an encrypted home directory (decrypted when I log in). One idea I had (partly from Cory Doctorow's Little Brother) was to have a password that I could enter which would ...
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