Why doesn't the Example Hashes Match With the Hashes That I Extracted?
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what do you mean?

Did you create a new veracrypt file with random data ? of course they differ, because the data is different (and the "salt"/entropy/randomness used by the algorithm is different for each new encrypted file, explained below)

As long as it cracks correctly, there is no problem.

Hashcat uses (and needs!) the data to verify the decryption. The data is always different, because the algorithm involves some random inputs too (very simplied, this can be seen as some kind of salt to avoid known-ciphertext attacks).

It's just important that you do not confuse "hash" files with "raw" files. the hash files already have the extracted data, while the raw files are the original veracrypt files.

The instructions do NOT say that different veracrypt files (even ones with the same plain text data!) are always identical if the same password was used. This is your misunderstanding and it's not written like that in the hashcat wiki/faq, because it's wrong (all new encrypted files should be different, even if they use the same password and even if the underlying data is the same).

remember that if you create some new truecrypt or veracrypt files, you should always initialize them by writting some known data to the opened/decrypted file (otherwise the verification with data might fail because hashcat can't find any matching known string of the decrypted data if it wasn't formatted and there is some data written to the raw/plain file).


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RE: Why doesn't the Example Hashes Match With the Hashes That I Extracted? - by philsmd - 01-26-2019, 01:01 PM