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Recovery KeyĮxtraction: search, cloud acquisition (coming to Elcomsoft Phone Breaker 6.0), request from Apple Note that it is no longer possible to run a FireWire attack on locked or sleeping Macs due to Mac OS X security restrictions, so the RAM capturing tool must be executed on a running computer with FileVault 2 container unlocked and a user logged in. In order to recover these keys, one would need to dump the content of the computer’s RAM into a file. Once the FileVault 2 volume is unlocked, the XTS-AES key is stored in the computer’s RAM. The 256-bit XTS-AES key is the actual encryption key that is used by the system to encrypt and decrypt data. Location: RAM (only while the encrypted volume is mounted)

This method requires additional steps to activate, and is typically used in organizations with centralized keychain management. These recovery keys are created when system administrators enable FileVault 2 encryption with FileVaultMaster.keychain. There is also an additional unlock method available called Institutional Recovery Key.

User password from any account with “unlock” privileges.

Protecting the entire startup partition, FileVault 2 volumes can be unlocked with either of the following: Attacking FileVault 2įileVault 2 is Apple’s take on whole-disk encryption. Not only will a user password allow accessing their Mac, but it will also allow decrypting FileVault 2 volumes that are otherwise securely encrypted with virtually unbreakable XTS-AES. This time, let’s talk about Mac OS X user account passwords. This is why we are targeting Mac OS with our tools. The adoption of Apple’s desktop OS (macOS seems to be the new name) is steadily growing. In the world of Windows dominance, Apple’s Mac OS X enjoys a healthy market share of 9.5% among desktop operating systems.