truecrypt
The Day I Cracked My Own 12-Year-Old TrueCrypt Volume: A Journey Through Virtual Machines, Legacy Crypto, and Million-Password Brute Force
Journey through recovering a 12-year-old TrueCrypt volume: from P2V virtualization failures to discovering VeraCrypt incompatibilities with RIPEMD-160, building a 12-million password generator, and creating a PowerShell batch-processing script that reduced 412 days to 6 minutes. Full code included.