Recovering a forgotten LUKS password

A friend of mine just forgot the fulldisk encryption password for a laptop.. sounds like a fun little adventure! This is not exactly a new topic, there are nice posts about this problem such as this one, however this is how I’ve tried to tackle the problem. The password was generated according to a couple of rules and only partially lost. Lets assume here for the sake of this little post that the password was generated by using a word list and contained multiple words, some of which are missing....

November 3, 2023 · 7 min · oblivious observer

Introducing oblivious

There is a new static site generator on the block.. also hello world.. Update (2021): guess what, I’m back to hugo.. Not necessarily because I started to dislike the idea of oblivious, I think it still is a pretty interesting concept and I particularly love the idea of being able to create a site, while having minimal dependencies and being pretty much language agnostic. The reason I switched was that on the one hand I got a bit more involved with NixOS, which seems to be even better suited to some of the things oblivious ended up taking care of (such as fetching resources) and on the other hand I just want to be able to publish something by pressing a bunch of keys without having to actively maintain the underlying tooling....

August 22, 2020 · 4 min · oblivious observer