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Message-Id: <3B87E422-199C-4EF0-9A6F-FD21AD5A76EF@pair.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:16:54 -0800
From: Jeff Keller <jakeller@...r.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Reward for saving my 15 years of photos
Yes, I’d do things like luv2eat or 1football or something like that (not actual password, but you get the idea). No spaces between words. Probably not underscores or dashes, either.
Thanks-
Jeff
On Mar 8, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Richard B. Tilley <rbt@....us> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 12:43:13PM -0800, Jeff Keller wrote:
>> Thousands of my treasured photos are stuck on an encrypted sparsebundle DMG file from a Time Machine backup. I?ve worked with magnum to gain support for the format and extract the hash (thanks magnum!), but neither of us have been able to get the password.
>>
>> I?m offering $3000 (via Paypal) to whomever can crack the code so I can retrieve the contents. I work for DPReview.com (world?s largest digital photography site, owned by Amazon) and formerly ran DCResource.com for 15 years, so I?m actual employed person who can pay the reward. My employer is not involved in this project.
>>
>> The password is NOT a random string of characters. It?s likely common words (which I?ve provided via the link below) with certain characters swapped out. It?s probably between 6-12 characters.
>
> Jeff,
>
> I hope someone can crack this and get your photos back.
>
> So you used multiple words together in the password? If so, did you use spaces between the words or typically a number to join them, etc? Can you give an example of how you typically used multiple words? For example, take the words down and town. Would you have made those:
>
> "down town"
> "down2town"
> "downtown2"
> "2downtown"
> ...
>
> Or something entirely different? The substitution part is easier. You explained your methodology there rather well.
>
> Brad
>
>> My common substitutions:
>> 1 -> !
>> O -> 0 (letter to number)
>> two -> 2
>> four -> 4
>>
>> You can download the hash and some possible hint words at this link:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/j88djfom71n72wj/jeff-hash-and-hints.zip
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions. If anyone can crack this one open, I will be forever in your debt!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jefff
>>
>> ---
>> Jeff Keller
>> Senior Writer, Digital Photography Review
>> www.dpreview.com
>
---
Jeff Keller
Senior Writer, Digital Photography Review
www.dpreview.com
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