Provided by: bruteforce-luks_1.4.0-4_amd64
NAME
bruteforce-luks - try to find the password of a LUKS volume
SYNOPSIS
bruteforce-luks [options] <path to LUKS volume>
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this program is to try to find the password of a LUKS encrypted volume. It can be used in two ways: • brute force attack: try all the possible passwords given a character set. It is especially useful if you know something about the password (i.e. you forgot a part of your password but still remember most of it). Finding the password of a volume without knowing anything about it would take way too much time (unless the password is really short and/or weak). • dictionary attack: try all the passwords in a file. The program can use several threads (the number of threads can be specified with the -t command line option). Sending a USR1 signal to a running bruteforce-luks process makes it print progress info to standard error and continue.
OPTIONS
-b <string> Beginning of the password. Default: "" -e <string> End of the password. Default: "" -f <file> Read the passwords from a file instead of generating them. -h Show help and quit. -l <length> Minimum password length (beginning and end included). Default: 1 -m <length> Maximum password length (beginning and end included). Default: 8 -s <string> Password character set. Default: "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTU VWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" -t <n> Number of threads to use. Default: 1 -v <n> Print progress info every n seconds. -w <file> Restore the state of a previous session if the file exists, then write the state to the file regularly (~ every minute).
EXAMPLES
Try to find the password of a LUKS encrypted volume using 4 threads, trying only passwords with 5 characters: bruteforce-luks -t 4 -l 5 -m 5 /dev/sdb1 Try to find the password of a LUKS encrypted volume using 8 threads, trying only passwords with 5 to 10 characters beginning with "W4l" and ending with "z": bruteforce-luks -t 8 -l 5 -m 10 -b "W4l" -e "z" /dev/sda2 Try to find the password of a LUKS encrypted volume using 8 threads, trying only passwords with 10 characters using the character set "P情8ŭ": bruteforce-luks -t 8 -l 10 -m 10 -s "P情8ŭ" /dev/sdc3 Try to find the password of a LUKS encrypted volume using 6 threads, trying the passwords contained in a dictionary file: bruteforce-luks -t 6 -f dictionary.txt /dev/sdd1 Instead of passing a block device to the program, you can copy the beginning of the LUKS volume to a file and pass this file to the program: sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/tmp/luks-header bs=1M count=10 bruteforce-luks -t 4 -l 5 -m 5 /tmp/luks-header Print progress info: pkill -USR1 -f bruteforce-luks Print progress info every 30 seconds: bruteforce-luks -t 6 -f dictionary.txt -v 30 /dev/sdd1 Save/restore state between sessions: bruteforce-luks -t 6 -f dictionary.txt -w state.txt /dev/sdd1 (Let the program run for a few minutes and stop it) bruteforce-luks -t 6 -w state.txt /dev/sdd1