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Originally posted by Dythor
So you are suggesting that the top hackers of the world can't break into my .ple files without knowing the password? I'm not being ironic, I'm just trying to figure out how tragic my situation is because I really miss those logs 
The top hackers in this world have dedicated machines to their disposal. But those machines only do what your computer is able to do. They aren't things which can break stuff by magic, they only can do calculations faster.
So, depending on the strength of the password, it would take a lot of their time too as they still would need brute force tools... unless someone finds a loophole in the Windows Cryptography APIs. But that is very doubtfull as those routines are created and updated especially to be inreversible without knowing the passwords, at this time*. And as soon as something is prooven to be reversible, it will be updated yet again with a stronger algorithm.
This said, no hacker in the world would probably be interested in your logs or putting time in trying to find the used password anyways, unless you pay them a few million dollars. And that is if you even can find those 'top hackers'.
So, yes, your situation is unfortunatly tragic I suppose. There is no way to decrypt the logs without knowing the correct password.
* The famous MD5 encryption/hashing method isn't reversible either. But nevertheless people have found ways to calculate collisions in a relative short time. This means that in theory it is possible to access something which is protected by a MD5 hash by an alternative password. But even so, you still would need a brute force attacker (even if you are using rainbow tables) to find the correct password or one of its alternatives.
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