Re: AES-256 encryption

From: Michel Pereira (michel@michel.eti.br)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 14:00:36 EDT


        But this tools can tell you if the correct key was found? Or you need
to see every output that the tool does.

Bye

On 16/08/2007, at 12:49, adrian.floarea wrote:

> As I say to Kush in a private email, it is almost impossible to
> crack a file which is encrypted in a proper way with AES.
>
> But, if the password used for encryption is a week password (like
> 1234 or abcd etc) with a specialized tool you can break the
> encryption.
>
> Even, if the password is weak some tools cannot decrypt the files,
> because do not understand the format of the document (for example,
> if the document is a PKCS#7 structure), so in this case you must use
> an appropriate tool.
>
> This was the sense of my words.
>
> Hope to help you.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Adrian Floarea, CISA
> Business Development Manager
> SC CERTSIGN srl
> Central Business Park
> 133, Calea Şerban Vodă St., Building C1, 2nd floor
> 040205 Bucharest 4, Romania
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R Buena [mailto:dreamsbig@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:09 PM
> To: adrian.floarea
> Cc: Kush Wadhwa; pen-test@securityfocus.com; forensics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Re: AES-256 encryption
>
> Just curious, what if the program was KeyPass or PasswordSafe?
> and you don't know the passphrase?
>
> On 8/14/07, adrian.floarea <adrian.floarea@uti.ro> wrote:
>> Hi Kush,
>>
>> Please tell me if you know the program which was used for encrypt
>> the file
>> and also the used password. If not, I am afraid that will be
>> impossible for
>> you to decrypt the file.
>>
>> There are some good programs for decrypt files (for example
>> Passware) but
>> with limited functionalities. For example if was used for
>> encryption a good
>> password (more than 6-7 characters, numbers or special characters)
>> it is
>> almost impossible to recover the file.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adrian Floarea, CISA
>> Business Development Manager
>> SC CERTSIGN srlr
>> Central Business Park
>> 133, Calea Şerban Vodă St., Building C1, 2nd floor
>> 040205 Bucharest 4, Romania
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com
>> ] On
>> Behalf Of Kush Wadhwa
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:36 PM
>> To: pen-test@securityfocus.com; forensics@securityfocus.com
>> Subject: AES-256 encryption
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Is there any way to decrypt a file which is AES-256 encrypted? I used
>> many of the tools but I was not able to decrypt it. Please help me if
>> any one knows how to decrypt it
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kush Wadhwa
>>
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