[Linux] Decrypting a pointsec HDD

[Tim Krabec]

According to a Colleague who used point sec in a large environment, if 
they used pointsec nodes are centrally managed and the management 
console can be used to regain access to a box, even if the passphrase to 
the key has been lost.  If not the answer is you cannot decrypt the drive.

-- Tim Krabec

On 2/22/2008 10:51 AM, Jason Alazawi wrote:
> does anyone know of any good software for decrypting a hard drive? The 
> drive is encrypted with Pointsec if anyone has messed around with it or 
> has any kind of information that would be great! I have scoured the net 
> looking for some information and have found nothing despite all the 
> forms that I have read and all my googling.
>  
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
>  
> On 2/19/08, *Danny Rathjens* <dannyr@wirespring.com 
> <mailto:dannyr@wirespring.com>> wrote:
> 
>     You can't recover the data unless you have a pointsec recovery disk.
>     Seems like a waste of time if you have backups.
>     I can't think of what is stopping you from repartitioning the
>     drives, though.
>     Pointsec obviously can't prevent that. Just do a fresh install as you
>     always would, booting from OS disk.
> 
>     p.s. Your huge .sig is a bit obnoxious :)
> 
>     Jason Alazawi wrote:
>      > Hi everyone,
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > I have a few laptops and some desktops at my job that has Pointsec on
>      > them, and we are trying to remove the encryption on our drives so
>     that
>      > we can reformat them and if at all possible get what ever data is on
>      > them off.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > When people are no longer with the company some of them change there
>      > password and claim that they forgot what they changed it to. We are
>      > trying to resolve this.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > I have tried to use Knoppix to see if we can see the files but
>     all you
>      > get to see is the actual hard drive, when you go to click on it
>     nothing
>      > happens, you get an error message saying that the drive isn't
>     mounted.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > If we can get the files off it great! If not oh well, we have backups
>      > from our servers but I would still like to reformat the HDD, has
>     anyone
>      > ever had any experience with Pointsec or decrypting an encrypted HDD?
>      > Any help, thoughts, or ideas on this would be GREAT!
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Thanks a lot
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
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