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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.

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 01 Sep 2025 ~ 16 min read

#ai

Running DeepSeek Coder Locally: AI Programming Assistant on Consumer Hardware on RTX 4080 Super: A Journey Through WSL

"Hey, what if we made superintelligent AI without needing a data center the size of a small country?"

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 28 Jan 2025 ~ 7 min read

#truenas

TrueNAS Snapshots and Windows Share protip!

I was blown away today while randomly checking something on my Windows Share with Family photos. When setting up TrueNAS

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 26 Jan 2022 ~ 1 min read

#microsoft

Auditing files on Windows Server

Recently some files went missing in very strict environment with all groups and rights made just right. Thing is, despite

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 10 Sep 2020 ~ 3 min read

#sysadmin

Odzyskiwanie utraconego hasła Administratora w Windows Server 2016 zainstalowanego na UEFI

Odzyskanie/zmiana hasła do Windowsa, także serwerowego przy fizycznym dostępie do maszyny jest trywialne. Ot, uruchomić z ISO NTPASSWD poszukać

> Bartosz Maciejewski @ 18 Feb 2020 ~ 3 min read

# windows

The Day I Cracked My Own 12-Year-Old TrueCrypt Volume: A Journey Through Virtual Machines, Legacy Crypto, and Million-Password Brute Force

Running DeepSeek Coder Locally: AI Programming Assistant on Consumer Hardware on RTX 4080 Super: A Journey Through WSL

TrueNAS Snapshots and Windows Share protip!

Auditing files on Windows Server

Odzyskiwanie utraconego hasła Administratora w Windows Server 2016 zainstalowanego na UEFI