alumar (OP)
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January 16, 2014, 04:58:34 AM |
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a old bitcoin 0.2 client with a wallet.dat that you remember running for a strong 6 months...
You may have a basic idea what the encryption password is, but what you have tried hasnt worked, but could of used only a combination of about 12 different things. Brute force ... could take months?
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charleshoskinson
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January 16, 2014, 05:22:57 AM |
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How many coins we taking about here?
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Keyser Soze
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January 16, 2014, 05:32:08 AM |
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You'd have to look around the forum a bit, but there's at least a couple people out there offering password cracking services. Success rate would depend on how much of the password you remember, complexity and so forth. I believe there is also a way to do this without exposing the private keys to the person, if they are successful.
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alumar (OP)
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January 16, 2014, 05:33:12 AM |
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absolutely no clue, pc is a old dell d530 with a Intel QuadCore Q6600 ... so in that time, was a pretty nice processor to grind bitcoins, it also had a 4870 ...but from memory ... i dont remember doing GPU mining.
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January 16, 2014, 06:06:00 AM Last edit: January 26, 2014, 06:22:13 PM by phillipsjk |
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I locked myself out of my own wallet. I think I recall choosing the length such that I can likely brute-force in the next 40 years (about 72 bits96 bits of entropy). I have it written down, so actual typos should be testable within a day.
I am thinking eventually wallets should start to integrate a "crack the password" feature. Though that would not work for extremely long/high-quality passphrases.
OP: I recommend backing up your wallet. Would suck if you crack the password, only to learn the drive crapped out.
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James' OpenPGP public key fingerprint: EB14 9E5B F80C 1F2D 3EBE 0A2F B3DE 81FF 7B9D 5160
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January 16, 2014, 06:43:52 AM |
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Just keep trying man. This happened to me once. The password is in your head somewhere... Just don't drive yourself too mad! And make/upload a backup somewhere safe & secure asap.
Good luck! I hope you and your bitcoins are reunited some day.
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January 16, 2014, 06:55:47 AM |
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Just start writing any passwords hints down. I had similar problem and I ended up building program that generated all possible passwords based on hints I had - few hundreds of those - which ended up containing the correct one.
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January 16, 2014, 03:54:51 PM |
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0.2 didn't have encryption. That was added in 0.6.0
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January 16, 2014, 07:53:22 PM |
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0.2 didn't have encryption. That was added in 0.6.0
0.4.0. Worked securely in 0.5.0.
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bennybong
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January 17, 2014, 03:36:08 AM |
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0.2 didn't have encryption. That was added in 0.6.0
On snap. OP? Your not going to tell this was just hypothetical all along are you... ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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empoweoqwj
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January 17, 2014, 04:28:34 AM |
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0.2 didn't have encryption. That was added in 0.6.0
On snap. OP? Your not going to tell this was just hypothetical all along are you... ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Well "Hypothetical" is in the title ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) or did he add that after ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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