The firm Passware claims that a tool has been developed to enable the password encrypted FileVault partitions on a Mac within 40 minutes out of date. This uses a firewire connection.
The kraaktool, Passware Kit Forensic v11.3 called, and reads the ram of a Mac by using a firewire cable to a pc to link. According to the developer of the software is the tool able to rapidly to find the password that is required to have a FileVault partition to decrypt: Passware shields with a maximum seek time of 40 minutes.
Passware claims that the tool belongs in the toolbox of forensic researchers because more and more users via the software, the contents of the hard drive or ssd to encrypt. Also, the company that computer users have their computers always required to turn on to not be vulnerable to such ‘attacks’, and therefore can not be in standby mode. The attack is not unique; for example, the tool of the encryption that the open-source tool Truecrypt to apply, in a similar way attacks.
In addition to the hackmogelijkheid FileVault partitions provides the Passware Kit Forensic is also the opportunity for passwords to be cracked using rainbow-tables and the reading of keychain files, claims the maker. Cheap, the tool is not; a license costs 995 dollars.
