(03-02-2023, 09:19 AM)lithensa Wrote: I have fortunately saved the Bitlocker Recovery Key and can access my files. But those files are protected by the same password I had set from the Bitlocker drive. Is there a way to get the plain text password by using the recovery key?
No. You can't use the recovery password to fetch the user password in any way. The opposite is possible, though. If you're locked in with the user password, you can use manage-bde.exe to get the recovery password. Not so interesting in your case though.
But..... your Windows user password can be cracked a lot easier once you're logged in. You can retrieve the NTLM hash for your user and crack on that. That will allow you to try millions of candidates per second, where a bitlocker hash only allow a few per second (depending on available GPU's of course).