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2017

Cracking LUKS/dm-crypt passphrases

Linux uses dm-crypt in order to provide transparent disk or partition encryption. What are the options in case you need to recover passphrase from such encryption? There are already ready-made tools, but we have also produced and published our own in order to support newer LUKS format/ciphers/hashing.

2036

Vim 8.2

For MS-Windows, download the self installing executable . Signed MS-Windows files are available on the vim-win32-installer site ( gvim_8.2.0012_x86_signed.exe is recommended) For Unix you probably want to get the latest version using git, see the github page Otherwise see the Download page for options.