Hi, could some admin please move this to
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85495.100 and let member Revalin know (being a newbie, I cannot post there nor PM him).
Revalin, thanks for your script. Me, too, I forgot my precise passphrase. I remembered the overall mechanism to construct my wallet passphrase but didn't remember exactly how I applied it.
My wallet passphrase consists of a left and a right part. The left part was a sequence of character, maybe "Start" or "start" or "beginning"... Same with the right part. It could have been "end" or "End" or ... So, the passphrase could have been "startend", "Startend", "beginningEnd", ... There were about twenty possibilities for the left and also for the right part, too many to test manually. So I adapted your script.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
lefts = [ "start", "Start", "Beginning" ] # The possible words for the left part
rights = ["end", "End", "ending"] # The possible words for the right part
def test(phrase)
print phrase, "\t"
system("./bitcoind", "walletpassphrase", phrase, "20")
case $?.exitstatus
when 0
puts "Found it! #{phrase}"
exit 0
when 127
puts "bitcoind not found in current dir"
exit 1
when nil
puts "Aborting"
exit 1
end
end
lefts.each do |left|
rights.each do |right|
test(left + right)
end
end
If someone wants to use it, then replace the words in lefts and rights with your words and add as many as required.
Another comment: as reported earlier by niklas, the script runs unusable slow on Windows. I recommend installing some Linux image. I had no problems with German special characters.
Revalin, please PM me, I would like to send you a Bitcoin reward. Without your script, I probably wouldn't have recovered my wallet.
