Hi Eric, Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try and hopefully can retrieve the file again :)
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:37 -0600, "Erik Falor" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:29:29PM -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > I had several files that were encrypted using the Blowfish algorithm. > > All of the files were encrypted using the same passphrase. However, > > after exiting Vim a few days ago, when I tried to open them again, all > > of them successfully opened except for one file. Is there any way > > that I can feed a password list to vim and it can try to open the file > > using this list (I would generate the list based on permutations of my > > passphrase)? I know quite a bit of the text that was in the file. > > Any ideas? Thanks for your help. > > # use each passphrase from file keys to open the file in vim and > # re-write it into a new file named for the passphrase (hope your > # passphrase didn't have any spaces in it!) > $ for key in $(cat keys); do vim blowfish.txt --cmd "set key=$key"\ > -c ":set key= | saveas $key | q"; done > > Now find which files look like ASCII text to the file command: > $ file * | grep "ASCII text" > > -- > Erik Falor > Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org > > Email had 1 attachment: > + Attachment2 > 1k (application/pgp-signature) -- Mathew Brown [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
