[zeebe]

OK, a friend of mine sent me a .dmg image via email with some photos she does not want other people to see, so she put a password on it (when you click on it, before it mounts, it asks for a password) and the one she gave me doesn't work (I have tried it with and with out capitals). Is there anyway to break into this? She has sent it three times and I get the same problem with all three, but she can open them on her computer using the password.
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks

[Thinine]

If there was, what would be the point of protecting it? Have her send it again with a new image with a simple password.

[zeebe]

I don't want to get into the details as why she wants them protected, that is her privacy, not mine to share. We have tried simple passwords, and as I said it works on her end.

[Millennium]

You're going to need to get her help on this one. A .dmg file is basically a .iso with a different filesystem format, but the password-locked ones are encrypted. Unless you have the password, you can't break into them by ordinary means ("ordinary means" being defined as "anything short of a government intelligence agency"). That's by design.

[eeeaa]

If you do manage to find a way to crack into the disk image file, post back here and let us know. I'll stop using protected disk images at that point.

The others have given good advice, however. Why can't she password protect the files again, using a simpler password. It seems obvious that she is giving you the wrong password. She probably chose to add it to her keychain when she created the disk image, so she has never typed it again, and has forgotten what the correct password is.