OS X 10.9: where are password hashes stored. Specifically OS X 10.9 which is the first of the non-cat named OS releases. Does anyone know where the password hashes are stored on OS X Mavericks? Macos security password. To continue on to try and crack the password see this tutorial.
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I have a MacBook Air running on OS X 10.9, and I need to recover a password. I figured out the hash, which is 554bc9ec674ff1476b67a02518cd9e4a, but I don't know how to decrypt it. This is super important, all help appreciated.
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Look into Hashcat and oclHashcat, but if they don't work, there is almost nothing you can do.
It should NEVER be possible to do as you ask. Hashes are not encrypted data; Hashing is a one-way permanent translation from input to output, so it cannot be 'decrypted'.
Encryption relies on its passphrase to protect its ciphered form, so if a password is easily guessed, or inferred by timing or other environmental exploits, there is not necessarily anything wrong with the encryption system; it may just be being used poorly.
When someone can infer the original values for a hash however, then the hashing algorithm is broken, and everyone stops using it, because it is no longer safe for any purposes whatsoever.
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