I have my portable drive encrypted with Bitlocker.  However, every time I connect with computer it doesn't appear a window to type in password to unlock rather than a recovery key. Unfortunately, I lost my recovery key so I can not solve this problem
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I have a .vhd image of a BitLocker encrypted drive.   When I mount and double click the drive, BitLocker wants me to enter a 48-digit recovery key and doesn't ask for a password.  Why is that so and how can I enter a password instead?    Note: I don't have either the key or the password of this drive. I'm trying to brute force the password using forensic software.
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I need to zip and password-protect a file. Is there a good (free) library for this?  This needs to be opened by a third party, so the password protection needs to work with standard tools.
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I have ubuntu mate. I have recently changed my password using the passwd command. I know now that I have made a mistake because I also have my home directory encrypted with the previous password.  Consequently after enter my new password at login screen it return me back to the login screen.  Can someone please help me?  I am able to enter to grub boot menu and shell, i am also able to log into guest user. Sorry if the topic is duplicate but I haven't found the same question  Thanks in advance.
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I'm using the  for quite a long time; but after exporting my key storage and gpg keys to another machine I see following output:  $ gpg --list-key /home/shved/.gnupg/pubring.gpg ------------------------------ pub   2048R/FA829B53 2015-04-28 uid       [ultimate] Yury Shvedov (shved) &lt;shved@lvk.cs.msu.su&gt; sub   2048R/74270D4A 2015-04-28   My key imported and trusted, but not usable:  pass insert test Enter password for test:  Retype password for test:  gpg: 2048R/FA829B53: skipped: No public key gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: No public key fatal: pathspec '/home/shved/.password-store/test.gpg' did not match any files   What can I do to use my key again?
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I am on Ubuntu and I have forgotten the password for my Gnome Keyring (yes, stupid me, I know). Any way I can get it back? I have already looked at , but it says it's not possible if my home directory is encrypted and unfortunately my home directory is encrypted.
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So I've got a brandynew System 76 laptop running Ubuntu 14.04, and if I close the lid, putting it to sleep, and reopen it, I am presented with the very nice new Unity lock screen. However, when I enter my password, and it succeeds, it then presents me with a second lock screen. Where I have to enter my password again, before finally being let into the desktop.  Hash anyone else seen this sort of behavior?
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My girlfriend forgot the password for her MacBook (don't ask), so I reset it using the Utilities.  But as you may be aware, this doesn't reset the Keychain password. Her MacBook is now virtually unusable due to Keychain demands continuously provoking a request for the Keychain password.  There are lots of other people asking this around the web and they're usually pointed towards this , which doesn't apply in our situation because the support advice involves entering the old password.  We don't know the old password.  Is it possible to reset Keychain without knowing the old password? We're not bothered about what's in there and what will be lost, we just want the continuous password prompts to go away.
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I have laptop with Windows 7. The whole drive is encrypted with Bitlocker. I want to switch magnetic hard drive to SSD. How can I mirror the entire system onto the SSD with the LEAST amount of user attention? Ideally, I'd like to be able to just pop the SSD into the laptop and get on with the life
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I was reformatting one of my extra hard drives with Windows DiskPart and accidentally selected the wrong hard drive.   I used the clean command, but it wasn't long before I realized I cleaned the wrong one. I only cleaned the drive, I did not format it or tool with it in anyway.   The drive I wiped had two partitions on it, one was unencrypted and the other was encrypted with TrueCrypt. Is it possible to recover my encrypted partition? I do not have a backup of the header, but I've heard it's possible.   If anyone can shed some light on the situation, or point me in the right direction, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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I got a brand new Windows 7 machine, installed the operating system, created one account and forgot its password. What can I do?  There is no external CD, the operating system is loaded from somewhere inside the machine.  I already tried to remember passwords and tried all candidates with all possible combinations of caps lock, num lock etc.
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When installing Ubuntu I chose to encrypt my home drive and after installation update information window came up:    Where I had to write down encryption passphrase. Well I closed it and it doesn't pop up any more. So the question is where can I find it to write down the passphrase?
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Environment: Windows 7, but applies to other EFS-compatible Windows versions  I have a file that is encrypted using standard Windows EFS encryption. When I copy that file to a USB drive using Total Commander or Explorer, the file stays encrypted at the destination.   Such encrypted file is inaccessible on any other Windows PC where my USB drive gets plugged in. I could import my personal certificates on that PC, but that's about the last thing I would like to do.  I would like the copying process automatically decrypt my file when the file is copied to a removable drive. Is there a way to tell Windows to do that?  A brute-force way to decrypt the file on-the-fly would be to switch to FAT as a file system on my USB drive, but I don't want to do that either.  Thanks in advance for any hints!
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Just got a new netbook running Ubuntu.  When I turn it on it auto-logs-in to the desktop automatically, but when I try to connect to the wireless network it wants my Keyring password to store the password.  Problem is it isn't in the documentation (yes, I read the documentation.)  I see a lot of people asking about "Enter password to unlock your login keyring" and the cause usually centers around either they forgot the password, or the keyring password is different than the login password. So the advice is either how to change the keyring password to match the login, or deleting the keyring and creating a new one with a password they remember.  While I could delete and recreate the keyring, I still wouldn't know the login password. Without the login password I cannot run sudo either.   I tried blank for the keyring password and that didn't work either.  Also, I know that the root password is blank, and the account is disabled.  So I am not asking about that.  Question comes down to this: Is there a way to discover the password for the account that was auto-logged in? If not can I change it?  I'm up for reinstalling if I have to, but would rather not.  Besides, it is a netbook and does not have a optical drive.
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I am a beginner in Ubuntu. And I have just installed Ubuntu 11.10 in my Dell laptop. When I plugged my WD external hard drive in, it read the first time, but since I have a unlock.exe file (password for the hard drive). So I installed Wine to read it. But it gives me an error. I restart the machine, and plugged the hard drive in again. And it is not recognized anymore. Can anybody help me, please?  Thank you!
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In the past I have never used BitLocker, but recently I have become interested in setting it up on both my mom's computer as well as my own. We both had Windows 8 Pro on which we never used Bitlocker, and have both upgraded to Windows 8.1 Pro. Since becoming interested in BitLocker, I have configured it on my mom's computer, and now want to do it on mine, but I have a problem: my BitLocker isn't working. I spoke with Microsoft support about it, and they determined that my BitLocker is corrupt for some reason. Since I couldn't pay them to fix it for me, I am left to deal with it on my own. How can I repair my corrupt BitLocker without losing all of my data? I looked in my %RootPath%\System32 folder where the BitLocker files are stored, and they are all there. The only problem is that when I try to run them, nothing happens. On top of that, the link in the Control Panel for BitLocker is missing, and I think that's mostly where the problem lies. How can I resolve this?  Post mirrored on .
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Windows allows the  of certain files or folders. I currently have a Windows folder that is set to "encrypt contents to secure data". (The Windows partition is NTFS.)  If I mount this drive under Linux, is there anyway to decrypt the contents of the directory so that I can read the files without having to reboot into Windows?
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I would like to configure this windows 10 machine to not ask for a password when resuming from IDLE, but still ask for a password when resuming from STANDBY or HIBERNATE.  The screen needs to turn off after 5 minutes and NOT use a screen saver.  The only information I can find is about disabling the lock screen password entirely - which is not what I want. Whether the lock screen continues to show or not is relevant as long as it doesn't require a password.  Version is Windows 10 Pro. It is also connected to a SBS2011 domain.