basically ive forgotten my hidden volume password and need help recovering it, Ive downloaded OTFBrutusGUI and im totally lost, tried looking around for guide but couldnt find anything about it because im a total noob but mainly i didnt understand it, if someone could help me recover my password? i know a few characters of the password but its a 60 character password.
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If there was a way it would negate the entire point of the FDE. Your only bets at this point is the use the recovery media you made if available or brute force it.
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Next time keep your passwords on note inside a watertight anal plug and wear at all times for maximum security. That way the only person getting those codes is anal raping you. Then losing your passwords is the least of your concerns.
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Nope, its gone.
That’s the whole point of it being secure.
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I'm just going to go ahead and say with that long of a password. You're boned with a brute force method. Even with purpose built hardware, brute forcing anything more than 9 characters starts to become an exercise in futility.
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From the developers themselves.
I forgot my password – is there any way ('backdoor') to recover the files from my VeraCrypt volume?
We have not implemented any 'backdoor' in VeraCrypt (and will never implement any even if asked to do so by a government agency), because it would defeat the purpose of the software. VeraCrypt does not allow decryption of data without knowing the correct password or key. We cannot recover your data because we do not know and cannot determine the password you chose or the key you generated using VeraCrypt. The only way to recover your files is to try to "crack" the password or the key, but it could take thousands or millions of years (depending on the length and quality of the password or keyfiles, on the software/hardware performance, algorithms, and other factors). Back in 2010, there was news about the FBI failing to decrypt a TrueCrypt volume after a year of trying. While we can't verify if this is true or just a "psy-op" stunt, in VeraCrypt we have increased the security of the key derivation to a level where any brute-force of the password is virtually impossible, provided that all security requirements are respected.
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Does VeraCrypt save my password to a disk?
No.
Also, for next time (where you do remember your password) if you want to be more sure you can access your encrypted data, you can create a rescue disk, if the header of the encrypted volume gets corrupted you can restore it. @Yockanookany you still need to know the password to open the volume even if you have the rescue disk Source.
I think you are boned. At default settings, Veracrypt uses some iteration thing on its password that makes brute-forcing unpractical. It takes (in computer terms) a significant amount of time to verify the password you enter, to make brute-forcing take many orders of magnitude more time.
As mentioned above, the recovery disk is for when the bootloader has been destroyed. You need the password used at the time that disk was created, but I am not sure if this will help you if the volume password has changed.
Mind you, this is a good thing for veracrypt. Makes it more secure. If you could just bruteforce your way in with little effort, should you have used it in the first place?
Oh I had no idea. I've never actually used the recovery disk.
Thanks for the warm welcome. It wasn’t spam, just I do I.t and haven’t had the time to edit some info out of the video
This topic is allmost a year old allready.
I guess that topic starter has allready fixed the issue.
There for i lock this topic.
Thanks for the explanation regardless.