When choosing a TrueCrypt password recovery tool, look for the following features:
Requires booting from a live USB, then selecting the encrypted system partition (starts with \\.\PhysicalDrive0 ). The tool extracts the hidden header.
TrueCrypt uses . Unlike cloud-based logins, there is no rate limiting or account lockout. However, the iteration count means that even at 200k attempts/second, a 10-character complex password (95^10 possibilities) would take billions of years to brute-force. Hence, intelligence (mask attacks, known patterns) is always superior to raw power.