Gnome Encfs Manager

How to recover data?

Asked by Levick

Recently I changed my Gnome EncFS password for a randomly generated passphrase and I added some words at the end of it... I actually recall the words I added but I can't remember the FULL passphrase and the password manager didn't saved the new passphrase so now I can't access my data (it still there but it is encrypted); it's worth mentioning that I have access to:

- My physical machine with normal user and super user privileges (obviously)
- My .encfs6.xml file
- Data recovered with photorec/testdisk which seems to be "ciphered with the previous password" (I can tell because of the date)
- All of the encrypted data
- Second half of the passphrase (the one I actually wrote and not just copypasted from some "xkcd random passphrase gemerator")

Is it possible to recover it? (at least the data ciphered with the previous password?) There is like 50GB of CRITICAL data there, YEARS of hard work.

So, Ideas? Thanks...

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Levick (jmlevick) said : 		#1

SOLVED!, just had to replace the ".encfs6.xml" with an older version of itself, (just before I changed the passphrase), then everything mounted as expected with the old passphrase; Here I found my answer:

https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/32

I almost had an an aneurysm or something.... *relief*