PC & Electronics Exploring: Cracking truecrypt containers with truecrack

Intro

Truecrack is a software designed to crack truecrypt containers using brute force attack or wordlist attack. It can be useful if you have created a truecrypt container and forgotten the password. The cracking speed depends on the computers CPU.

Disclaimer

This tutorial is ONLY for educational reasons. Do not misuse this information. I am not responsible for the way you use this knowledge. And remember with great power comes great responsibility.

How to use

syntax :

truecrack -t [container path] [options]

Basic options :

-w [path] wordlist

-c "[characters]" charset for brute force

-s [number] minimum password length

-m [number] maximum password length

-v verbose mode

For more options and help see the man page :

man truecrack

Tutorial

For this tutorial i have created a truecrypt container with the default options with a password '1234'. There are two ways to crack the container.

One way is using a brute force attack and the other a wordlist attack. In this tutorial we are going to try both.

Brute force

To brute force we are going to use the following command :

truecrack -t sectet_container -c "1234" -s 4 -m 4 -v

in this command we remember that the password contains the characters "1234" if you don't remember the password at all then use a different charset eg. "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm".