Recover a wallet with public key and the bip38 password

[johnsonr29]

 Is it possible for me to recover my paper wallet only knowing the public address and the password I protected the back up text with? I do not have the back up text anymore or the 12 word recovery phrase, they were written down and the paper has been destroyed in a fire.

[pooya87]

There is no connection between your password (used for encryption) and your address or even your private key for that matter.
In order to recover your key you need 2 things:
1) your encrypted private key. It would be a string that starts with 6P if it was a private key encrypted using BIP38 scheme
2) your password that you used to encrypt it.

Same with your mnemonic, you'll need all the words or at least 90% of it. Similarly if it was encrypted, you'll need the encryption result + the password you used to encrypt it.

[NotATether]

I know it's unlikely but if you remember the positions of any of your seed words, you can use BTCrecover to brute force the rest of the words.

But for this to be feasible you'd need to remember at least 7 or 8 words.

As a desperate last resort you can use Bitcrack to attempt to brute-force the private key but similar to BTCrecover, you need to have remembered most of your private key characters to have a practical chance of this working.

In general, brute-forcing is the only solution for recovering a lost private key or seed phrase.