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Title: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 06:55:21 AM
So a family member thought it would be a funny "prank" to put a password on my bitcoin wallet.  Now they can't remember.  I was searching the web and found several methods of cracking the wallet password via dictionaries or typos/variants, but I'm looking for a way to crack via bruteforce.  I have little to no scripting abilities, that is why I am posting here.  I am running a dual boot of windows 7 and ubuntu 12.10, so if anyone could link me to a script for such a thing (if it exists), I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

Also, when looking at this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117022.0  I was wondering just how I would run the script in multiple instances.  Again, I'm quite a novice scripter.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Kaepora on June 07, 2013, 06:59:30 AM
There was a thread a few days ago. Maybe these might help:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170694.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85495.msg942171#msg942171


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Zaih on June 07, 2013, 06:59:50 AM
If this was a viable option I feel as if a lot of people would be unfairly losing their bitcoins  :-\


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Maged on June 07, 2013, 07:01:41 AM
Do you have any backups of the wallet? If they never sent anything after encrypting the wallet, the backup should still work.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 07:07:11 AM
I never made any backups, unfortunately..  To the above person saying "that's what you get", I obviously didn't play a prank on myself -.- this is clearly doable, simply not by me.  But thank you for your pseudo-concern (in other words, thanks for nothing).  The reason I was asking for a bruteforce method, specifically a GPU intensive one, is that I have access to enough GPU, or I'm okay waiting a month.  It's not really a viable solution, but it's the only one that will work 100%


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Kaepora on June 07, 2013, 07:10:56 AM
I never made any backups, unfortunately..  To the above person saying "that's what you get", I obviously didn't play a prank on myself -.- this is clearly doable, simply not by me.  But thank you for your pseudo-concern (in other words, thanks for nothing).  The reason I was asking for a bruteforce method, specifically a GPU intensive one, is that I have access to enough GPU, or I'm okay waiting a month.  It's not really a viable solution, but it's the only one that will work 100%
Whoa, take it easy. What I posted above is really all there is you can do. How many btc did you have?


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 07:12:41 AM
I never made any backups, unfortunately..  To the above person saying "that's what you get", I obviously didn't play a prank on myself -.- this is clearly doable, simply not by me.  But thank you for your pseudo-concern (in other words, thanks for nothing).  The reason I was asking for a bruteforce method, specifically a GPU intensive one, is that I have access to enough GPU, or I'm okay waiting a month.  It's not really a viable solution, but it's the only one that will work 100%
Whoa, take it easy. What I posted above is really all there is you can do. How many btc did you have?

The post was directed at the other person "gweedo", I appreciated your post, thank you. I had about 5 at the time, which is a fair amount of money but nothing to buy a super computer for cracking over.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Maged on June 07, 2013, 07:17:32 AM
I never made any backups, unfortunately..
Was this on Windows 7? Try right-clicking the wallet file and selecting "Previous Versions". Otherwise, try this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: caveden on June 07, 2013, 07:20:22 AM
If you know nothing about the password, even a dictionary attack might not be enough - unless the password is weak, which might be the case since it was supposed to be a "prank".

Honestly, if this "prankster" has a minimum of honesty, you should push him/her every fucking day to pay you back. This is theft/vandalism, not a prank.
Once s/he pays you, you give him/her the encrypted file, and it's up to the person to decrypt it, not you.

That assuming the prankster has a minimum decency, of course.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: KSV on June 07, 2013, 07:23:51 AM
now thats a funny prank . . .


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 07:25:43 AM
I never made any backups, unfortunately..  To the above person saying "that's what you get", I obviously didn't play a prank on myself -.- this is clearly doable, simply not by me.  But thank you for your pseudo-concern (in other words, thanks for nothing).  The reason I was asking for a bruteforce method, specifically a GPU intensive one, is that I have access to enough GPU, or I'm okay waiting a month.  It's not really a viable solution, but it's the only one that will work 100%
Whoa, take it easy. What I posted above is really all there is you can do. How many btc did you have?

The post was directed at the other person "gweedo", I appreciated your post, thank you. I had about 5 at the time, which is a fair amount of money but nothing to buy a super computer for cracking over.

Don't blame me for your stupidity.

I'm not responsible for the ignorance of others.  That includes you.  Nice to know this is a community with inhabitants that have over 4000 posts of pure unintelligent spam.  Do go waste your life elsewhere, as I'm sure you have other threads to post unintelligent, incorrect responses to  (Tells someone they are stupid after claiming that you can't bruteforce a wallet.  Makes sense).

If you know nothing about the password, even a dictionary attack might not be enough - unless the password is weak, which might be the case since it was supposed to be a "prank".

Honestly, if this "prankster" has a minimum of honesty, you should push him/her every fucking day to pay you back. This is theft/vandalism, not a prank.
Once s/he pays you, you give him/her the encrypted file, and it's up to the person to decrypt it, not you.

That assuming the prankster has a minimum decency, of course.

I've made sure they were aware that it wasn't funny.  Unfortunately, even if they would pay it back, they aren't able to.

I never made any backups, unfortunately..
Was this on Windows 7? Try right-clicking the wallet file and selecting "Previous Versions". Otherwise, try this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0

Bitcoin is installed on ubuntu, I will look at that thread though, thanks.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: caveden on June 07, 2013, 07:29:04 AM
Don't blame me for your stupidity.

Unless he's lying, he was the victim of vandalism. Stop blaming the victim, this is disgusting.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 07:30:37 AM
Don't blame me for your stupidity.

Unless he's lying, he was the victim of vandalism. Stop blaming the victim, this is disgusting.

Thank you, I'm glad this community does have a majority of normal members.

Currently downloading a wordlist, then switching to ubuntu to see if I can try and recover via maged's method.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: caveden on June 07, 2013, 07:32:48 AM
I've made sure they were aware that it wasn't funny.  Unfortunately, even if they would pay it back, they aren't able to.

It's not just "not funny". That's the equivalent of breaking into pieces a $500 TV or something.
But anyway, I don't know how close the person is to you (your child, perhaps?) so I'll no longer say anything. It's your life.

My advice: try to make the prankster remember the most he can about the password. Length, some characters, what words were in it etc. With enough information you can try to break it.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: pinarello on June 07, 2013, 07:38:56 AM
hello,

just wondering how this worked out? have sort of the same problem.

kind regards
pinarello


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 07:40:26 AM
I never made any backups, unfortunately..  To the above person saying "that's what you get", I obviously didn't play a prank on myself -.- this is clearly doable, simply not by me.  But thank you for your pseudo-concern (in other words, thanks for nothing).  The reason I was asking for a bruteforce method, specifically a GPU intensive one, is that I have access to enough GPU, or I'm okay waiting a month.  It's not really a viable solution, but it's the only one that will work 100%
Whoa, take it easy. What I posted above is really all there is you can do. How many btc did you have?

The post was directed at the other person "gweedo", I appreciated your post, thank you. I had about 5 at the time, which is a fair amount of money but nothing to buy a super computer for cracking over.

Don't blame me for your stupidity.

I'm not responsible for the ignorance of others.  That includes you.  Nice to know this is a community with inhabitants that have over 4000 posts of pure unintelligent spam.  Do go waste your life elsewhere, as I'm sure you have other threads to post unintelligent, incorrect responses to  (Tells someone they are stupid after claiming that you can't bruteforce a wallet.  Makes sense).

You have money on your computer and you let your family used it, then YOUR STUPID! This what you got, you learned a lesson, and now your calling me unintelligent LMAO at least I have access to my bitcoins ;) Also just to rub it in your face, I get paid by going on this forum, so yeah not wasting my life.

Don't blame me for your stupidity.

Unless he's lying, he was the victim of vandalism. Stop blaming the victim, this is disgusting.

Vandalism LMAO, no he a victim of his stupidity, he should have had it encrypted it before this, and he learned a lesson ;) Thank you, my ignore button is to the side please press it now.

Makes a post to call another person stupid, doesn't spell "you're correctly", never mind 50% of their words.  You seem to be quite the intellectual.  I was unaware you had your laptop sewn to your chest, carrying it wherever you went to make sure nobody else has 30 seconds to touch it.  You clearly don't have any family members that you care about/care for you, or you would realize that not everyone has their laptop in a dungeon in their mother's basement.  You don't get "paid" to spam.  You most likely get paid for your mediocre, high school leveled coding abilities.  Nobody is paying you to post on this thread.  You're posting here because you have nothing better to do, and are thinking "Hmm, I'm most likely 17 and this will help me feel better about my incredibly low self-esteem!".  By all means, do continue to post and demonstrate to everyone else just how much of a loser you are though, as it does not do me any harm.  I'm sure loads of people will be more likely to contact you for work due to these posts.

I've made sure they were aware that it wasn't funny.  Unfortunately, even if they would pay it back, they aren't able to.

It's not just "not funny". That's the equivalent of breaking into pieces a $500 TV or something.
But anyway, I don't know how close the person is to you (your child, perhaps?) so I'll no longer say anything. It's your life.

My advice: try to make the prankster remember the most he can about the password. Length, some characters, what words were in it etc. With enough information you can try to break it.

I'm currently working on that, but it seems bruteforcing will be my only option.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: caveden on June 07, 2013, 07:51:01 AM
Vandalism LMAO, no he a victim of his stupidity, he should have had it encrypted it before this, and he learned a lesson ;) Thank you, my ignore button is to the side please press it now.

What a disgusting jerk...

Leaving your car open with the keys on the contact are no justification for theft. Walking with short skirts on a shady neighborhood is no justification for rape. Reacting to an armed robbery is no justification for murder. And leaving your wallet unencrypted is no justification for destroying it.

The person in the wrong is always the one that commits the crime. The one that did not see it coming (even if according to your rushed judgment, "was so obvious")  is the victim.

I'm currently working on that, but it seems bruteforcing will be my only option.

Pure brute-forcing only works against very weak passwords. You should attempt at least a dictionary attack first. There's no much point in trying totally random strings.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 08:00:00 AM
Vandalism LMAO, no he a victim of his stupidity, he should have had it encrypted it before this, and he learned a lesson ;) Thank you, my ignore button is to the side please press it now.

What a disgusting jerk...

Leaving your car open with the keys on the contact are no justification for theft. Walking with short skirts on a shady neighborhood is no justification for rape. Reacting to an armed robbery is no justification for murder. And leaving your wallet unencrypted is no justification for destroying it.

The person in the wrong is always the one that commits the crime. The one that did not see it coming (even if according to your rushed judgment, "was so obvious")  is the victim.

Then he should call the police and have them arrested, if it is over $5,000 value it is felony and can do time. Instead of putting it on a forum. But no crime was committed. It was stupidity.

Yes because I'm going to call the police on a younger family member.  You just have all the answers!  Too bad none of them are intelligent or make any sense.  When your paper wallet/phone/whatever gets stolen, I do hope the police tell you it was due to your stupidity :)  Though you'd have to actually leave your basement for such a thing to happen.  Might be a stereotypical thing to say, but when you accumulate over 4k posts in a year of absolutely nothing productive, it's the truth.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78545.msg906685#msg906685

Shouldn't you be paying BTC to watch girls online or something? :D

If anyone actually has any idea what they're talking about, do feel free to join the conversation!  I'm still unsure as to how one would run multiple instances when using a wordlist, seeing as the words would most likely overlap.  I have the GPU required, this just isn't as simple as inputting the hash into hashcat.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 08:22:01 AM
Vandalism LMAO, no he a victim of his stupidity, he should have had it encrypted it before this, and he learned a lesson ;) Thank you, my ignore button is to the side please press it now.

What a disgusting jerk...

Leaving your car open with the keys on the contact are no justification for theft. Walking with short skirts on a shady neighborhood is no justification for rape. Reacting to an armed robbery is no justification for murder. And leaving your wallet unencrypted is no justification for destroying it.

The person in the wrong is always the one that commits the crime. The one that did not see it coming (even if according to your rushed judgment, "was so obvious")  is the victim.

Then he should call the police and have them arrested, if it is over $5,000 value it is felony and can do time. Instead of putting it on a forum. But no crime was committed. It was stupidity.

Yes because I'm going to call the police on a younger family member.  You just have all the answers!  Too bad none of them are intelligent or make any sense.  When your paper wallet/phone/whatever gets stolen, I do hope the police tell you it was due to your stupidity :)  Though you'd have to actually leave your basement for such a thing to happen.  Might be a stereotypical thing to say, but when you accumulate over 4k posts in a year of absolutely nothing productive, it's the truth.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78545.msg906685#msg906685

Should you be paying BTC to watch girls online or something? :D

It is my bitcoins if I want to watch girls online I can LMAO I don't see how this is a problem or anything? It is actually a pretty ingenius site, that WW created uses P2P stream the video.

I would call the police on a younger family member, that would tech them a lesson. Considering my paper wallet is valued at high 6 figures, yes I would call the police and press charges if it got stolen cause it be a felony and that person would go to jail. And just to debunk this "basement thing" I actually brought an apartment that over looks the hudson river on the NJ side. I can see the city at night and it did cost me a pretty penny but it was worth it.

Also in over a year of being in bitcoin, I have helped launch some of the biggest sites, I have created and licensed technology to help manage multiple bitcoind's to act as a single bitcoind. I have create many sites. I have also raise my net worth to over a $1 million dollars. This last year was a pretty productive, I would say. And I have graduated from a top school in the USA. So anymore jabs at me? or you content with your shitty life with your brother/sister breaking your wallet which probably had $20, I could lost that all day LMAO.

That's quite a claim coming from someone who pays for porn and just misspelled/used improperly 80% of the words in their statement, and who made over 4000 posts of stupid in a little more than a year.  Good thing you're so wise and informed, that must be how you know that children are sent to jail.  Anything else you'd like to tell a forum of people who couldn't care less  :)


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 08:28:36 AM
That's quite a claim coming from someone who pays for porn and just misspelled/used improperly 80% of the words in their statement, and who made over 4000 posts of stupid in a little more than a year.  Anything else you'd like to tell a forum of people who couldn't care less  :)

What does paying for porn have to do with anything? and you didn't read all my post, maybe you can actually learn something. See you think these people don't care, but I have an email inbox that shows a different story but that is ok.

Yes forum people that don't care, don't be a stupid newbie and let your stupid siblings or kid play with your bitcoin-qt wallet. It is real money and it should be kept as such. No one has every been locked out a paper wallet.

Fat slimy greeseballs (people who call themselves "guidos" and live in new jersey) pay for porn cams, that's the relevance.  But do keep on talking.  I could tell you that I'm batman all day long.  At the end of the day, nobody is going to believe anyone, and I'm not batman and you're still an extremely unintelligent e-thug on a forum.  Because I know lots of successful college graduates with terrible wu-tang songs in their signature, who can't spell a sentence to save their life, and post over 4000 times on a forum in a year.  That's what all of the wealthy and intelligent people I know do.  Said nobody.  Ever.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Destined2bGreat on June 07, 2013, 08:42:42 AM
That's quite a claim coming from someone who pays for porn and just misspelled/used improperly 80% of the words in their statement, and who made over 4000 posts of stupid in a little more than a year.  Anything else you'd like to tell a forum of people who couldn't care less  :)

What does paying for porn have to do with anything? and you didn't read all my post, maybe you can actually learn something. See you think these people don't care, but I have an email inbox that shows a different story but that is ok.

Yes forum people that don't care, don't be a stupid newbie and let your stupid siblings or kid play with your bitcoin-qt wallet. It is real money and it should be kept as such. No one has every been locked out a paper wallet.

Fat slimy greaseballs (people who call themselves "guidos" and live in new jersey) pay for porn cams, that's the relevance.  But do keep on talking.  I could tell you that I'm batman all day long.  At the end of the day, nobody is going to believe anyone, and I'm not batman and you're still an extremely unintelligent e-thug on a forum.

LMAO Clearly I am unintelligent yet I am the one here who graduated from a top university and has actually helped the community. I am not an e-thug, I have not threaten you or anything that would make me a "thug" of any sorts. Thanks for using slurs against my nationality (Italian), kinda uncalled for but ok. I see it you just hate "guidos" and NJ people cause we are the cool people in the room, and I am the cool person on this forum. So yeah you just a hater LMAO people keep hating it is funny, also why is paying for porn cams a bad thing? Cause your mom told you porn was bad right? LMAO

Because porn is free and the people who pay for it are weird?  I believe the point where you used the word "hater", a word used by every unintelligent person in new jersey who thinks they belong on jersey shore/mtv, is where I decided that you can argue with yourself.  You wouldn't pass a freshman writing course, never mind graduate from a "top university".  How anyone could ever take your terribly typed, jumbled, dissarray of posts as "helpful" is beyond me.  We are not in a "room", and posting 4000 times in a year is not "cool".  Neither is being from new jersey, nor is being italian (you don't have to be italian to be a greaseball, you can just be a grimy slob such as yourself), as I've been to new jersey and it's mostly a shithole.  There is nobody here going "yeah nasty old new jersey guy who pays to jack off, you're real cool!", it's just you trying to convince yourself and I that you are cool.  And I am not convinced.

Again, if anyone is able to help me multithread a bruteforcer, don't hesitate to post :)


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: hotbabe on June 07, 2013, 08:45:06 AM
That's not nice from you!!


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: pheaonix on June 07, 2013, 09:26:27 AM
http://www.unfinishedman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Guido-with-fake-tan-e1291269816772.jpg

being form NJ and being italian does make me pretty cool.

good luck with your wallet recovery. learn to use the bruteforcers. try the lists first, they are good. also ask what your little brother typed in there. was it random letters?


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: thegamekind on June 07, 2013, 11:07:41 AM
how much did you have in the wallet? if its .c i wouldnt bother :L


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: wormbog on June 07, 2013, 11:31:06 AM
So a family member thought it would be a funny "prank" to put a password on my bitcoin wallet.  Now they can't remember.  I was searching the web and found several methods of cracking the wallet password via dictionaries or typos/variants, but I'm looking for a way to crack via bruteforce.  I have little to no scripting abilities, that is why I am posting here.  I am running a dual boot of windows 7 and ubuntu 12.10, so if anyone could link me to a script for such a thing (if it exists), I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

Also, when looking at this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117022.0  I was wondering just how I would run the script in multiple instances.  Again, I'm quite a novice scripter.

Sorry man, it's time to either roll up your sleeves and learn some scripting, or offer to pay someone to help you out.

As for your pranking family member, that prank was the equivalent of breaking into your room, stealing $600 in cash, then losing it. Write $600 on some paper, post it on your fridge, and mark it down a little every time you don't give him a birthday present, christmas present, etc.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Foxpup on June 07, 2013, 01:03:21 PM
Gweedo may be a complete jerkass, but he's an intelligent jerkass, and he does have a point. Leaving a large amount of money unprotected where other people can access it is kinda stupid, you have to admit. But that doesn't mean it's entirely (or even mostly) your fault. You could sue the prankster, but that won't do you much good if they really can't pay you back (though the court could garnish their wages if they have a job). I'd advise you to go to the police and/or a lawyer and discuss your options. I understand if you don't want to put a family member through that, but there's really not much else you can do if you want your money back.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: orymh on June 07, 2013, 01:47:42 PM
Destined2bGreat, I may have missed it in all the noise on this thread: What wallet software are you using? At least some of them give you a chance during wallet setup to make a note of your seed, or a mnemonic that can be used to recreate your seed. If you have that seed, you can recreate/recover your wallet, rather than trying to crack the original one. This approach should get you all the addresses (and associated balances) generated by the original wallet, but you will not recover any addresses you imported into the wallet.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: Eva Braun on June 07, 2013, 02:22:59 PM
So a family member thought it would be a funny "prank" to put a password on my bitcoin wallet.  Now they can't remember.  I was searching the web and found several methods of cracking the wallet password via dictionaries or typos/variants, but I'm looking for a way to crack via bruteforce.  I have little to no scripting abilities, that is why I am posting here.  I am running a dual boot of windows 7 and ubuntu 12.10, so if anyone could link me to a script for such a thing (if it exists), I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

Also, when looking at this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117022.0  I was wondering just how I would run the script in multiple instances.  Again, I'm quite a novice scripter.

I dont buy your story at all, probably a stolen wallet.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: vm1990 on October 01, 2013, 12:50:26 PM
So a family member thought it would be a funny "prank" to put a password on my bitcoin wallet.  Now they can't remember.  I was searching the web and found several methods of cracking the wallet password via dictionaries or typos/variants, but I'm looking for a way to crack via bruteforce.  I have little to no scripting abilities, that is why I am posting here.  I am running a dual boot of windows 7 and ubuntu 12.10, so if anyone could link me to a script for such a thing (if it exists), I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.

Also, when looking at this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=117022.0  I was wondering just how I would run the script in multiple instances.  Again, I'm quite a novice scripter.

I dont buy your story at all, probably a stolen wallet.

from the looks of your feedback you would know all about that


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: klenker on January 07, 2014, 10:14:24 AM
Thank you, my ignore button is to the side please press it now.

I don't know you, but I'm taking that offer. You're a complete loser.

/plonk.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: gweedo on January 07, 2014, 04:37:29 PM
Thank you, my ignore button is to the side please press it now.

I don't know you, but I'm taking that offer. You're a complete loser.

/plonk.

Thank you sir.


Title: Re: Need a way to crack bitcoin wallet password
Post by: aynstein on January 30, 2014, 12:14:36 AM
I know this is kinda old but I totally blame Obama for this guys predicament. Just sayin.