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Passphrase recovery with Btcrecovery
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despo4helpo
on 21/03/2023, 14:23:47 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1)
I'm trying to use Btcrecover to find my passphrase. I entered it on a Ledger Nano S and I thought I was sure of the words, but obviously I'm wrong.
My passphrase is relatively long; possibly 15-20 words all put together.  I've tried multiple custom token lists to no avail, and wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

When using --listpass, I've noticed that if -typos-capslock is enabled, it tries combinations of lowercaseUPPERCASElowercase.

1. My passphrase is all lowercase or all uppercase. If it's all lowercase, then possibly, the first letter of the passphrase OR first letter of each word is proper case. It would have been a pain to do that on the Ledger though so I am hoping it's all lower or upper case. Is there any way to run only those combinations, or do I need to try each casetype as a separate run?

2. I'm relatively confident there are certain words, and even the order, and use + in front of those. The other words are in the middle but I'm not certain how the "relative anchor" works.

3. Complicating things more, I may have replaced a's with @, s with $ etc. I have the custom-typos map but that becomes way too many combinations. I think I did it only for the first a or s in a word and not all. I.e., Emb@rra$s

Any thoughts/suggestions/scripts/other tools than btcrecover you can suggest?

Thank you for joining me on this recovery journey.