iisjman07

If you're using a DVD you could possibly fit Ophcrack on there

That's true, compared to DBAN or other disk wiping methods it's incredibly fast (although it's not exactly instantanious). This video should explain about disk wiping: http://www.youtube.com/SuperFlyFlippingA#p/u/38/fst8IZup44c Full disk encryption will stop most law enforcement agencies, but I wonder how long it will take this computer from the NSA: Talking about Brute Forcing passwords:

I've used HDDErase before (http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml) which is from the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, which will issue the ATA command to destroy the drive. It also has an advantage over DBAN which is that it can wipe reallocated sectors. Not sure about this statement . I stopped it on a drive part way through (hard reboot) and the drive was completely fu**ed

I managed to get a good screen shot of the application: http://e.imagehost.org/0238/AccessData.png It's Access Data's Password Recovery Toolkit.... I tried running the python script in windows but... . Right now I'm looking for Access Data's tool because it seems very good (it's not easy to find -_- )

Thanks, I'm burning a Backtrack 4 dvd as soon as I get some more blank DVD's... Still looking for a windows based app if possible

Thanks for the quick reply, I'm having a look for the show you mentioned... no luck yet

First off let me start by saying I've been nosing around Hak5 for a while now, and that I'm a computer tech in the UK (I'm an active user of TechNibble...). What I'm into for now is kinda forensics, and I need some help. Right now I'm using a program called 'Passware Kit Enterprise' to crack archive/document passwords, but as expected, if can be very slow. The guy in this video from DiskLabs says he's using 'biographical techniques' to generate suspected passwords that have some relevance to the user. I'm looking for such software that can generate a list of possible passwords (mutations) based on some given key words faciliatated to the user to then put into a password 'recovery' program in the hope it will speed up the recovery. The link to video is http://www.youtube.com/user/xx0033#p/u/2/tFLnx24TZLE Does anyone know what this or similar software is? Any help is greatly appreciated.