Help - Lost BitCoin Wallet Passphrase

dnaleor

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Quote from: jjzm on January 12, 2012, 02:24:33 PM

Nevermind! Just found it. Cheesy

Thank the lord!

I know the feeling bro Cheesy

I once had a password on my wallet but it didn't work. Turned out my Num Lock was OFF when I created the password Cheesy

edit: wallet held 1.25 BTC

Kouye

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on January 12, 2012, 02:33:04 PM

Good thing you found it because the answer is your screwed.

That's actually not true, as long as the the owner has enough hints about the passphrase, it can be brute-forced quite quickly.
And sometimes even keyboard-brute-forced, as proven here. Grin

But beware when people send you their wallet for trying to crack the pass, as it's became a new form of scam, they actually send a trojan instead of a wallet.

walletrecoveryservices

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In this situation, you could try walletrecoveryservices.com since that does just what you want. (brute forces bitcoin wallet recovery if you forget your password, without being able to steal your bitcoins)

DeathAndTaxes

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Gerald Davis

Good thing you found it because the answer is your screwed. If there was software which could decrypt an encrypted wallet what would be the point of encryption? Wouldn't the thief just steal the wallet and then decrypt it?

Any good encryption means you lose the key you lost it.

I would write down your password and put it somewhere like a safe.

jjzm

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