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Re: Forgotten BIP38 password
by
EcuaMobi
on 12/03/2015, 18:55:58 UTC
I made a paper wallet on bitaddress with a BIP38 password. Recently, when I tried to import, I was given an error message stating that the passphrase was incorrect. I used the last (x) digits from the public address as the passphrase for the BIP38. My assumption is that maybe one character is capitalized when it shouldn't be.

Is there a script or software I can use to run through variations of the passphrase? It is 9 different characters, 8 letters, one number. Im looking for a program that would run abcde, abcdE, abcDE, abCDE, aBCDE, ABCDE, ABCDe, ABCde, ABcde, etc. using only these nine characters.

Any help would be appreciated, .05 bitcoin bounty to the solution.

This SW should help you:
https://github.com/notespace/bip38-cracker

It seems your only option is to try all the possibilities.