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In recent years, technology has been growing in leaps and bounds, shaking up entire industries and fields.

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One field that has benefitted greatly from advancements in technology is the field offorensics.

Forensicsis a field involved with using science to investigate crimes to find out why and how something happened.

To effectively perform their duties, people in digital forensics face one major hurdle,encryption.

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Encryptionis a way of scrambling data into secret code to prevent access to the data by unauthorized parties.

However, not all have the same capabilities.

Here are the best forensic decryption tools to aid you in your investigations.

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This decryption tool has a number of features that make it top this list.

Passware Kit Ultimate has no free trial but offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on the product.

Elcomsoft offers a free trial version of the forensic decryptor.

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MVT was built and released by Amnesty International Security Lab in 2021.

All of these are used to analyze the photos and videos stored in the Windows Photos tool.

This tool works on Windows versions up to Windows 10 and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

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Hashcat supports all existing hash formats and is able to use a systems GPU to accelerate its password cracking.

Hashcat can perform different attacks to crack passwords.

If you oughta crack passwords.

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This is your go-to tool.

It can be used to find and crack weak passwords in a system.

However, unlike Hashcat, John the ripper can use GPU Acceleration to speed up password cracking.

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Conclusion

Forensic decryption is done using a wide range of tools, each with a unique utility.

Next, check out our review ofPassware Kit.

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