Decrypting .eslock files
Edit of Feb 9, 2025: I built a web version of this tool . It doesn't upload the whole file for processing, only the extracted MD5 hash. (Edit of july 13, 2025: the MD5 decrypting APIs I was using are down, the tool will only give you the extracted hash but you'll need to decrypt it yourself) I was feeling nostalgic the other day so I decided to take a trip down memory lane by browsing some old entries on my phone. To my surprise, I found a few encrypted files that I don't remember putting there. After trying a few passwords that made sense, it quickly became apparent that a mental dictionary-based brute force approach was not the way to go. I turned to Google in search of answers. The first pages mention an app that can decrypt .eslock files, and while it looked promising, I wasn't sure it would be smart to trust a black box of an app with data that I once deemed private enough to encrypt. I had to find another way. This blog post in particular caught my eye. It ...