Forgot password for LV7.0-vi

[OnlyOne]

Hello,

i have a vi that is used in teststand since years.

Now comes the day where i have to modify something - but - no idea about the password.

The only thing i now is that i used LV 7.0 for saving.

Does someone have a password-bruteforce-application to get the password back? Also if it will run for days...

Thanks for any help

[LV_Pro]

You may be out of luck. Unless the password was very short even a brute force attack could/would take a long time. There are no other copies hidden on your company's hard drives?

[gsussman]

Yup, out of luck.

Several years ago on a whim I decided to write a VI that used the brute force approach for cracking a password.

I was curious how long it would take to actually break in if someone was so inclined.

Even with a relatively short password the program would have taken many weeks to crack the code.

[OnlyOne]

Yes,thats true. I just wrote an automatically password-checking-program - but i come on two checks/sec and thats to slow fow A-Z, a-z. 0-9 usw and unknown length.

Finally i installed Copernic Desktop Search and indexed my computer and server with full search - and i found the password :-)))))

In the end it was saved in a textfile (password_labview.txt) located in one of the subdirectories of the project.

So the place was where on should normally look before writing a password-checking-program.

So learned for next time, open your eyes.

But thanks for your help