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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Encrypted wallet.dat, lost password, any solutions?
by
Revalin
on 21/01/2015, 06:47:28 UTC
Problem is, the test does not test all possibilities as expected. Typically i get results like :

guili195
guili466
guili1051
guili1231
guili1370
guili2026
guili2476

As if, I don't why, some steps were jumped. I can write a bit python but this is the first time I am touching ruby. Please someone help ?

My script takes a shortcut.  Electrum doesn't stretch the wallet seed (more here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330672.0) and most passphrases can be rejected before stretching.

The script is written to be compact instead of readable so it's hard to spot it.  The shortcut is: given an invalid key, "$cipher.final" raises a CipherError exception; the program then jumps to "rescue OpenSSL::Cipher::CipherError", skipping the lines where it prints and tests the passphrase.