From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 05:36:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 326C716A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8B843D2D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 05:36:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1PDaJE8054958; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:36:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <403CA4B0.8080208@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:35:44 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kiyawat Dharmesh References: <002501c3fb64$42266620$bd45a8c0@cmcltd.com> In-Reply-To: <002501c3fb64$42266620$bd45a8c0@cmcltd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: decrypt a file in unix X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:36:20 -0000 Kiyawat Dharmesh wrote: > HI > On HP UNIX system I have encryted a file by mistake and forgot the key. > Is there any way by which I can get the original file back? > Pls help me. This is really the wrong list for this question - freebsd-questions or (maybe) freebsd-security would have been more appropriate - assuming you are trying to decrypt on FreeBSD and not HP-UX (since, after all, this is a FreeBSD list, not and HP list). However, if you are asking what I think you are asking, then I'm sorry to say that you probably won't be able to get the data back - since that is the whole idea of encryption in the first place. Depending on what algorithm you used to encrypt the data, there is a slim possibility that you would be able to find a way to brute force it, but I wouldn't count on it. Good luck Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------