Guide to Bypassing Bitlocker Encryption on Older Windows Systems

UPDATE: Because of the requirement of TPM 2.0 in Windows 11, this method no longer works. On older Windows 10 systems that are not using TPM it will still work as described.

NOTE: This is a very long process, and may not always be successful. There are people who crack hashes for money, I AM NOT ONE OF THEM. Do not contact me to crack "your" hash.

This is for educational purposes only and is only to be used on computers that you own or have permission to test.

In this video we go through the steps of creating a Bitlocker drive, imaging it, turning the image into a crackable hash and then cracking that hash with Hashcat.

FTK imager: https://www.exterro.com/ftk-product-downloads/ftk-imager-version-4-7-1

Article I used: https://openwall.info/wiki/john/OpenCL-BitLocker

Intro: (0:00)
Bitlocker settings: (1:10)
FTK imager: (1:50)
Bitlocker2john: (4:27)
Hashcat (Crack the Hash): (7:20)
Password cracked: (8:40)
Outro: (9:27)

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