01-14-2019, 02:26 PM
(01-14-2019, 02:57 AM)a-blackw-d0w Wrote: I stored them in both my USB Drive and External drive, for safe keeping, and I did not think to unencrypt one for safe using, they're both locked away and I was in a rush to reformat my PC because of some problems, Only after did I notice the mistake, and I used keypass to make the password for my usb drive and external drive, both locked away, I have an old file, but not the latest with my passes, I understand if this mistake is too much to correct, I thought so, sad news. I remember it was using upper case and lower case with numbers, no special characters. I guess I burned myself too much this time, thank you for the replies.
I wouldn't give up entirely. You've just narrowed the keyspace exponentially by eliminating special characters, and you do know the exact length. The original hard drive that was used while creating the passwords may be helpful in searching for the key. I would immediately stop using your system drive so we can look for the key in the file system's unused space. If it was stored outside of Veracrypt, (like if you pasted it into a text file or emailed it to yourself) that's a huge plus (this is implied in your previous thread). Where that password may be depends on the operating system and many other factors.
If it's not found, then as a last resort I would come back to looking at cracking the password. Just remembering where a few characters were would reduce the keyspace drastically. Or maybe you remember that the first 3 characters were capitals and the last was a number. Or maybe something about the numbers -my point is that anything you remember can make a major difference. This is always where I start- first, is the password really lost? Second, are we really looking at a true 20-character keyspace.
All of this can be worked into an equation to determine the length of time that it would take given the amount of hashing power that you have. Due to high CPU overhead of the GPUs, we've built several "rigs" that work together and have just upgraded to RTX 2080 Ti Nvidia GPUs, which we've found to be up to twice the speed of our previous generation GPU's, depending on complexity of course.
And if you are storing something like pictures and it can wait, in a few years this may not be as impractical as it sounds.