How to decrypt encrypted files that I recovered. I have my passcode!

[TheSkullbasher500]

Hey guys, So yesterday I managed to accidentally delete all my pics and videos off my micro sd card, over 800. So basically all my life the past year is gone. I managed to recover them with photorec and that worked amazingly! Its just all my files are encrypted.... However I do have my password and I want to know if theres anyway to decrypt them so I can get them back? I know theres a way I just need someone to explain it to me, If anyone could help me I'd be so grateful!!! And Yes my friends I know I should've had everything backed up. Believe me in the future I'll backup everything

 

[hang-the-9]

What happens when you put the card into the device and try to open it?

 

[TheSkullbasher500]

What happens when you put the card into the device and try to open it?

Literally nothing, Theres absolutely nothing left on it, it opens but like I said there just nothing left on it

 

[Mr_Limo]

You had encrypted the card before? That's unusual. What kind of device is it coming from? You would need to access from the SD card itself, most likely. Professionals may be able to help, but it's not cheap.

 

[hang-the-9]

What happens when you put the card into the device and try to open it?

Literally nothing, Theres absolutely nothing left on it, it opens but like I said there just nothing left on it

You should be able to decrypt the card using the same device you encrypted it with, but your issue may be that you ran the file recovery on the card while it was still encrypted, which is bad. The file recovery can't read encrypted files they way it should, and it will see just a mess of data without any real order or construction.

It's like this, you create a robot that can take torn paper and arrange the parts to form the original sheets. It knows to to look at the paper parts, and put it together to form a sheet of paper by knowing how the parts go together. That's the recovery program. Now you take a piece of paper, and you not only do you rip it up, you also take those parts and then cut up the edges so they don't fit the way they did originally. The robot can only fit the parts that fit together, but since you manually changed them, the end result of the paper is garbled, not the original text that was on the paper, but you have words and letters in all different places. That is what a recovery program will do with encrypted files.

What you needed to do was decrypt the card, then run the restore on it. Encryption is great for privacy, but once you need to work with data recovery or a failing device, then it gets very very hard to work with.