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A few months ago I created a Truecrypt volume, with a password I created using words from a cover of a book that I stringed together randomly. The words were typed out side by side with no spaces.

This was a while ago, and now I cannot remember the order of the words, or how long the password was. However, I know that the password is made up out of 20 possible words (on the book cover). Is there a program where I can input these 20 words that will try all possible combinations and get me back my password? I'm using Windows 7.

This is the story of how I forgot my Truecrypt password and eventually got it back. I am posting this so that it may help you if you are in a similar situation. I am not a programmer, so I probably won't be able to help you much more than what I relate here, but I am sympathetic to your plight. If you are here because you forgot your password I understand how you feel.

You should prepare yourself for the reactions you may encounter on your journey, especially when you venture onto forums. Some people will mock you for forgetting your password (as if you're not kicking yourself already!) Others will call you a liar and accuse you of trying to break into someone else's Truecrypt container. A third type of person will actually be helpful.

Don't let criticisms get to you; people do what they do for countless reasons. Just keep in mind that you are only human and forgive yourself. Now let's get on with this! Password goneI started using Truecrypt (v7) when I bought some and got paranoid about keeping my wallet secure. I had a passphrase already but I concluded that it was too weak, so I inserted symbols around the words of my passphrase. Trouble is, a month or two later I forgot which symbols I used and this wretched little dialog kept appearing on my screen. After (frantically) trying all the variations of my password I could think of I had to accept that I had truly forgotten it.

How to recover encryption password. (the default used by TrueCrypt software). The time to complete the recovery operation may be very long. Recovering a Truecrypt password using preset word combinations? Should not be that hard now that there will be GPU accelerated solution to crack truecrypt.

I felt stupid, of course, and I was in a funk for several days. But I decided that this was a long-term problem that I would take my time with, and in the worst case I would hang onto that Truecrypt container until quantum computing came along and fix it then! So, the first thing I did was start research on cracking a Truecrypt container and I learned a few things. For one thing, if you forget your password entirely you are in a very bad spot unless you used a short, uncomplicated word or phrase because you will have to crack it using the entire set of characters on your keyboard, which could take a very long time. A more typical situation is one like mine where some of my passphrase is known and part of it isn't. I needed to be able to generate passphrases that accept the parts I know and insert into them the parts I don't know, using a set of characters I specify. This kind of problem is known as 'password masking'.

Password maskingHere is the phrase I started with: thE mouse is cutE As I mentioned, I inserted special characters (from the number row of the keyboard) around each word like this: ~thE%mouse@is#cutE+ but I couldn't remember the middle three characters (the question marks): ~thE?mouse?is?cutE+ So, I needed a software tool that would accept as given (mask) the parts I knew and generate passphrases using characters from the keyboard's special characters row in the spaces between the words. This was essential because if I tried to brute force the entire password it would take more than my lifetime! Ctc Model 43503 Manual. None of the cracking tools had the masking features I needed, which meant I would have to use a two-step solution: first, I would use password generating software to create my password list and then I would feed this list to the cracking tool.

Password generatorsI started looking into password-generating products, of which there are many! I read the marketing literature, I described my problem to their sales people, I torrented copies to try out, but only a handful seemed to have the masking feature that I needed. And even if a product contained masking, that didn't mean I could use it. Some products used a strange syntax method that I couldn't understand or their masking didn't fit my particular problem, or they were too expensive. I eventually found a product that not only had useful masking, but also had helpful staff and that was Password Generator Pro by SoftFuse (v2.7). Here is the masking field on Password Gen Pro's screen. Izotope Alloy 2 Keygen Download Manager. Another of my requirements was that I needed to be able to export my long list (thousands) of passwords into a text file and only SoftFuse's Pro version could handle this much volume.