Hi.
I don't know anything about computers and like me i suppose there is a lot of people. I'm missing one letter or a capital or some space in my passphrase. i all ready look in a lot of post and conversation, the answer but didn't understand anything. So if there is any body who wants to help solve this problem step by step for a retard like me i will create a blog or page with a video and the instructions given for all the newbies who are in the same problem like me.
help us as a community!!!
Please
If it was me doing this, and as you said, you know your passphrase but you have a few variants to check and multiplying those out makes it onerous to do by hand then I would:
* look up what sort of encryption is actually on the file
** the idea here is that you can make a simple command line program to loop through your variants
** you need to know the success condition, ie, what does the file look like if you successfully decrypt (so that your program knows when to stop and say SUCCESS!)
* write a simple loop in perl or bash or python or some scripting language to give it a go
I did this a few years ago with a Bitcoin Wallet for Android wallet file, I used the openssl binary on my linux system and a perl script.
Others here may be able to comment about how wallet.dat files are encrypted, I can't remember at the moment.
