Hi there!
Just a bit of background: a year ago, I changed my VeraCrypt password and unfortunately, i forgot it. I've been attempting to recover it for the past six months using cloud GPUs, but without any success so far.
Here's what I can recollect about my password structure:
Major difficulty is creating a custom dictionary that balances cracking time with good combinations. The other is the slow cracking speed, where, if lucky, I'm achieving 500-1000 hashes/s with cloud GPUs. Unfortunately, despite these attempts, I could not recover it.
Up until now, here's what I've done:
Are there any advanced techniques or methods I haven't tried yet that could help crack the password? Would it be advisable to hire a professional password recovery service? I am not a professional.
Is there still a realistic chance of recovering my password, given what I've tried so far?
I understand this is a complex issue and I apologize if it's beyond the scope of this forum.
Thanks in advance for your time and expertise.
Just a bit of background: a year ago, I changed my VeraCrypt password and unfortunately, i forgot it. I've been attempting to recover it for the past six months using cloud GPUs, but without any success so far.
Here's what I can recollect about my password structure:
- It starts with a numerical sequence, ~45 characters long. I know this sequence 100%
- There might be a space after this.
- Following that, we have a password string, an underscore, and a number.
- This pattern (space, password string, underscore, number) repeats once more.
- So, it's a long numerical string followed by the password potentially repeated twice, with a space possibly separating them. I'm confident about these. I also remember the PIM. I don't remember the hash mode, but I've tested all available modes.
Major difficulty is creating a custom dictionary that balances cracking time with good combinations. The other is the slow cracking speed, where, if lucky, I'm achieving 500-1000 hashes/s with cloud GPUs. Unfortunately, despite these attempts, I could not recover it.
Up until now, here's what I've done:
- Reviewed my password list and generated all possible combinations.
- Made a dictionary from scratch for dictionary attack, but with no luck.
- Tried to generate combinations for the possible space and the numbers following the 45 character sequence.
- Applied every password that I could remember.
Are there any advanced techniques or methods I haven't tried yet that could help crack the password? Would it be advisable to hire a professional password recovery service? I am not a professional.
Is there still a realistic chance of recovering my password, given what I've tried so far?
I understand this is a complex issue and I apologize if it's beyond the scope of this forum.
Thanks in advance for your time and expertise.