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Re: Encrypted wallet.dat, lost password, any solutions?
by
Revalin
on 09/01/2014, 03:09:54 UTC
i need a script that i know the first 9 charasters but not the rest could be unto 9 long

Hello I opened a wallet long ago i have 0.8 btc, I absolutely remember not the password, I just know that I put 10 characters with uppercase in the word. Is it possible to have a script that test every possible combination of word 10 character?

It's not feasible to guess completely random passphrases.  Here are how many days it it will take with one CPU:

Code:
   passphrase length            lowercase         alphanumeric        any character
                   1                 0.00                 0.00                 0.00
                   2                 0.00                 0.00                 0.00
                   3                 0.00                 0.03                 0.10
                   4                 0.05                 1.71                 9.43
                   5                 1.38               106.03               895.58
                   6                35.75              6574.10             85080.08
                   7               929.61            407594.28           8082607.59
                   8             24169.80          25270845.55         767847721.40
                   9            628414.78        1566792424.34       72945533532.94
                  10          16338784.22       97141130308.84     6929825685629.39

Even with a large budget (thousands of CPUs or GPUs) you could only do 6 or 7 characters.

It's only possible to crack a passphrase when you know most of it and the unknown part is constrained.  That's why I have so many custom tailored scripts in this thread - each targets a narrow pattern which could be identified.