how do i bruteforce a linux kde full disk encryption. i get to please unlock disk sda5 crypt. I have an apprioximate idea of the password i used. It can only be a few words but because i alphanumeric and sometimes i add dashes or fullstops and also the possiblity of mistyoing by accident i have forgotten the password. I have no idea how to bruteforce. I am also noob at linux. Please help and i will love you forever.
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I don't know what KDE has to do with full disk encryption, but I believe hashcat would be able to do what you need. It supports LUKS (and Veracrypt/Truecrypt).
But this is not for a beginner, at all.
You would need to get the key from the drive, and then run hashcat against that.
Or, alternatively, attach the drive and have hashcat generate combinations, and feed those into a script to try and unlock the drive.
You can specify the structure of the target password via hashcat command line options (eg. 8 characters, first 3 are alpha, then a dash, then the rest are numeric or whatever you believe it is).
You better have a really close idea of what that password is though, because if you don't you'll die of old age before guessing the correct one.
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