[GRLUG] find a passphrase locked file

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Mar 29 22:48:50 EDT 2013


Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:

>Is there a way to search a computer to find any passphrase or password
>locked files?


No, not directly.  It depends on what 'type' of protection you are asking about.  GPG files can generally be recognized by the file command, ssl armoured files are a bit more dicey.  Office / OpenDoc type files that are protected aren't any different than non protected files.... but if you look at the metadata gathered by tracker it might know - then your answer is just a SPARQL query away.

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Adam Tauno Williams


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