Hi,

I forgot my encryption password.
How can I find it or remove it?

I cannot access my database without password

On 9/2/2014 2:55 PM, baris g wrote:
> I forgot my encryption password.
> How can I find it or remove it?
>
> I cannot access my database without password
>

Are you encrypting the actual table data  ?

If so then my only suggestion is to check if you have an edbmgr with the
password stored in the ini still around somewhere or have stored the
password somehwere else (like in code).

I'm not aware of there being way of retrieving it - that would be
considered a major security risk in case of something like EDB.

Raul

Actually, I have only edbtbl, edbtblx and config files but I cannot remember password.
Because I reinstalled my computer.





Raul wrote:

On 9/2/2014 2:55 PM, baris g wrote:
> I forgot my encryption password.
> How can I find it or remove it?
>
> I cannot access my database without password
>

Are you encrypting the actual table data  ?

If so then my only suggestion is to check if you have an edbmgr with the
password stored in the ini still around somewhere or have stored the
password somehwere else (like in code).

I'm not aware of there being way of retrieving it - that would be
considered a major security risk in case of something like EDB.

Raul

I tried hex editor to find password but it doesn't work.


baris g wrote:

Actually, I have only edbtbl, edbtblx and config files but I cannot remember password.
Because I reinstalled my computer.





Raul wrote:

On 9/2/2014 2:55 PM, baris g wrote:
> I forgot my encryption password.
> How can I find it or remove it?
>
> I cannot access my database without password
>

Are you encrypting the actual table data  ?

If so then my only suggestion is to check if you have an edbmgr with the
password stored in the ini still around somewhere or have stored the
password somehwere else (like in code).

I'm not aware of there being way of retrieving it - that would be
considered a major security risk in case of something like EDB.

Raul

On 9/2/2014 5:11 PM, baris g wrote:
> I tried hex editor to find password but it doesn't work.

AFAIK it's not actually stored as that would be a security flaw also so
if you have encrypted the table and don't know the password then i don't
there is anything that can be done.

I'd suggest you double check that table is actually encrypted since
you'd need to specifically set that during table creation.

Raul

baris


I'm slightly baffled. How does reinstalling your computer make you forget your encryption password?

However, that is immaterial, since, unlike DBISAM, there is no way to retrieve the password from the tables. I don't think there's even anything that Tim can do to help you here.

Unless you have the encryption password stored somewhere the only thing that I can recommend is a brute force attack and hope that your password lies near the front of any scheme you come up with.

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:

> ... the only
> thing that I can recommend is a brute force attack ...

And start using something like 1password to store your passwords. FWIW,
I used 1password to generate both the new administrator name and its
password for my web store, so it isn't "admin" but something like
"b7hYMz6qtMQxd" for the user name.

But you have to store it somewhere, and I know that mine is in the
source code since it has to be there to open it...


--

Matthew Jones

I agree with Matthew. Have you checked the "EncryptionPassword"
property in the TEDBEngine component? AFAIK, if you changed the
encryption password you would have to be using an explicit TEDBEngine
component with the changed password.
--
Jan


Matthew Jones wrote:

> But you have to store it somewhere, and I know that mine is in the
> source code since it has to be there to open it...