Yes, the drive sadly does a self-erase next time, since all my tries failed - and i have to confirm this action. (btw, i'm not sure if there was a password length limit) The use of special and upper/lower chars and the length varries from time to time. No, i don't use fixed password shemes nor words from a dictionary. I will take a look to your posted link / reallymine. I got just this informations by checking the S/N:ĭescription: MY PASSPORT 4TB BLACK WORLDWIDEĭescription: MY PASSPORT ULTRA 4TB BLACK EMEA

I have tried the online warranty status to get hopefully the production date. This is probaly called WD smartware - i don't really know atm. In this case things become more complicated, as you'd have to try take an image of the encrypted drive first etc harddrive is crypted/protected with the buildin manufactor mechanism. Which then gives the question if your drive does self-erase after multiple wrong passwords had been entered. Do you passwords contain things that are in a dictionary? What is your typical password length? What characters do you use, which don't you use? If you have a weak password scheme, it might be possible to automatically brute force. The main question is if you have a fixed password scheme that you use for your passwords, and how good that is. It will be really hard and take long, but it might be possible: WD Smartware for example back in 2015 were easy to crack due to them using a non-cryptographic random number generator.

In the end, it all depends on if any security issues in the product make brute-forcing the password easier. First of all, what technology did you use to encrypt the harddrive? WD smartware? Bitlocker? Truecrypt? Veracrypt?

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