Password is 14 char contains only numbers and letters, both upper and lower case, no real words, was a random generated string. Please help
How much money are we talking about? Because i think its gone. You wont be brute forcing 14 char password anytime soon.
Not masses but enough to make me mess up my house trying to find the password and to spend the evening trying to find some way to get around it
How much do you remember about the password? Assuming you have used it a couple of times you should know at least a few parts. ...and again which software? Brute force time vary greatly depending on the wallet software you use.
You cant bruteforce full random 14 characters long and i dont think any wallets use fake encryption. His best bet is finding the password. Next time get backups.
No its not about fake encryption, but key stretching.
vs. Electrum/Multibit Classic I can do 500K keys/s on 4 cores (i5); vs. a core wallet 1700 keys/s on a GPU (GTX 970); vs. a Multibit HD wallet 50 keys/s on 4 cores. If OP can remember enough to reduce the search space to a few billion possible password there is a chance the password can be recovered in reasonable time. If its a straight 14 random chars they have never seen before, there is no chance. Its however unlikely that you have never seen your own password.
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Sorry haven't been able to reply because of the time lock thing, there theoretically are 12401769434657526912139264 things my password could be but I can rule out it being all numbers or all caps or all lowercase so 12401640414608120317837312 possible combinations. Other than that the software is Bitcoin Core, I don't remember anything substantial other than the prior mentioned as I made the wallet in 2015, uninstalled the program without clearing the data, reinstalled today, at that point I had misplaced and forgotten the password and in absent mindedness I already sent money to it before it clocked in my head that it hadn't asked me to set up a new password. So to recap - 14 Characters Uppercase, Lowercase and numbers, no symbols, it wasn't full numbers or letters either upper or lower, was created on Random.org if that makes it worse since they don't use an algorithm. So I am pretty sure I am screwed but if any of you can help at all it would be majorly appreciated
Well core is pretty good at defending against brute force attacks, I think you can do the math yourself with the above numbers. If you have a powerfull GPU you might wana try your luck for a few weeks. This[1] is the tool I would have used.
Edit: If you used a slow machine to create the wallet it might be possible to do more tries per second.
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https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover
