I have an old Knoppix installation on a HDD with encrypted user data for which I have forgotten the password, i.e. I can no longer access my data in knoppix-data.aes. Unfortunately, I also cannot remember enough of the password such that a brute-force attack would be feasible.
The HDD has two partitions SYSTEM and DATA. The latter is empty, but I noticed three very large files KNOPPIX, KNOPPIX1, and KNOPPIX2 with no filename extension inside SYSTEM. To my understanding, these files are not encrypted.
Can I simply browse/extract their content e.g. from within Ubuntu, or are certain packages required which are exclusive to Knoppix?
Is there any chance that either one of these three files may contain at least some of the data encrypted in
knoppix-data.aes(such as digital photo albums)?
Addendum: When opening the SYSTEM partition in a Linux file manager, the location is displayed as SYSTEM/KNOPPIX (in all caps). Could it be that, when the hard drive is connected, what is being mounted as SYSTEM is in fact the file KNOPPIX?
