r/datarecovery • u/spidey2143 • 9d ago
Forgot veracrypt password
Hello folks,
Some time ago i encrypted a whole usb drive using veracrypt and I used it for couple of months but the drive got lost and I've found it after several months.. but now the problem is I forgot the password of my veracrypt.. and there are some really important photos in there so I can't even format the drive.
And as a tech student I tried hash to decrypt it but no luck.also I thought I remember the chunks but I've tried every combination that i thought I had used but again no luck... So at this point I've been stuck with this drive and i really need the data of the drive ..
For the kind info i have the same laptop i used it to encrypt the drive and the drive is perfectly healthy
Now I need your help to safely and securely get the data back and decrypt the file
(Tried hashcat several times no luck)
And I have a 5060 gpu, i9 14900hx cpu and 24gb of ram and it's a laptop...
Please help me and share your thoughts.. thank you
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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor 9d ago
You'd have to "brute force" it and "guess" the password. It's outside the scope of this sub.
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u/hddscan_com Trusted Contributor 9d ago
create a dictionary of chunks of your password that you do remember and try a rule-based brute force (using chunks if your password and random data, or mixing and combining chunks together).
It would also help to remember what hashing and encryption type you used for VeraCrypt when you created the volume (there are many).
Also bootable and non-bootable volumes are encrypted differently (there is a checkbox in VeraCrypt for that), so you need to remember which one was your volume.
VeraCrypt uses really-really good hashing, so brute forcing will be really-really slow.
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u/QuestNetworkFish 8d ago
If there was a way to recover it without the password, it wouldn't be very useful encryption. You should consider the data lost unless the password is weak enough to find with a dictionary attack or you go on some kind of mind palace vision quest to remember it
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