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Re: Bitcoin Core Wallet Recovery
by
Peter882
on 10/12/2014, 08:24:42 UTC
Write down what you can remember now, and try to think about the remaining part.

Unless the pass was a really short phrase I dont think its doable, so it sounds dodgy to me.
OP, did you use any weird characters like @ >< whatever? how was the pass like? how long?
Depending on how long and what characters you use not even NSA will break it in a lifetime of bruteforcing, unless they have some alien tech shit.

Exactly. Unless you have a short password, or you can remember majority of your password, it won't be feasible to brute-force it.


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.