Re: Crack GPG Password

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Chris Mohler wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Liam McCombes <liammccombes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, I forgot my GPG password. I hadn't used it for a while and it just
slipped my mind. It's about 20 characters long. I do, however, remember the
first 15 or so characters. Is there any program which I could enter in the
known digits and have it use those to crack the rest? I understand this
process could take a pretty long time but if anyone can help me out, I'd be
really grateful ( and would be less stupid in the future).
Ouch. I guess you tried finding any documents that have the known
characters in them?

? I don't understand what you mean here, but I doubt that the OP will
find anything like what they are asking. GPG isn't like the movies...you
can't have only a portion of a password and crack the remaining
digits/characters. It's kind of an all or nothing deal...I mean, if you
encrypt something, then encrypt it again with a password that's one off
in characters, you should get something that looks completely different.

-Bart

I think he meant something that would include the part he remembered,
and 'guess' the remainder.

Along the same lines have you considered just making a list of the
possibilities, then scanning it by eye to see if something jogged your
memory. If you have a way to generate the list quickly, it might be
worthwhile.

That depends on the type of passwords you use, though.
If they're like: fK^3klP9jYdd7+Hg0awV, you can probably just forget it.

I use stupid phrases for my passwords, so something like that would work
for me, if I could only remember the first part.

Examples:
29ClownsR282Many!
Imagine4llThePizzas45&331/3





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