Quote from: dNote on September 02, 2014, 10:00:24 AM

Quote from: dclone on September 02, 2014, 04:16:11 AM

Has anyone else had an issue with a wallet where the password you are "sure" is correct doesn't work? I had an old wallet from early on, which I lost access to when i exited and ran it again. This obviously looks like a forgotten password, but I was certain I knew what it was.

I have started trying to brute-force it, but thought I would ask around anyway. At this pace, with 30 of my mining machines running a process, it will take about 1.5 months to try all of the a-z0-9 options up to 6 characters. I don't even know if that will cover it, so if anyone knows of a GPU-based brute-forcer please PM me. Or a way to run it not through simplewallet like the bitcoin brute-force options of extracting the hash and trying to generate a match. With the rise of XDN value it's worth my spending some time to work it out. Also, I am just stubborn like that.

Make sure you use the same -bit version as you used initially, when wallet was created.

E.G.
If you used -32 bit version - use it again now
If you used -64 bit version - use it again now

Thanks. It is the same version. I literally exited, re-ran, and it would not take the password. I don't remember running it more than once (just the initial run), so I can't rule out massive fat-finger, but I have tried every letter/number substitution within reason, and no luck yet. The frustrating thing is I am sure I could do this hundreds of times faster with GPUs, but don't have the skills to code something to do it. Or even if I could do it on CPU, but without just running the simplewallet app endlessly and watching for the exit code.

At the very least, take this as a pro-tip. Once you set the password, exit and re-run to confirm before you start mining into that wallet.