Recovering LTC wallet password

[shiftoshi]

I have an old (2014) litecoin wallet to which I accidentally transferred some money (miss-clicked the wrong address on the exchange).

I was glad I could find the wallet.dat to which I transferred the money but it's password protected when I try to withdraw the money.

Whats the best way to open it? I have a few words I think are in the password but I've been trying a few and none work.

Thanks.

[Little Mouse]

Maybe bruteforce, otherwise no way unless you have private key saved. Do you have private key saved for that address?
If you know some parts of the password, it can be easy to recover depending on the length of the password.

[BitMaxz]

I have a few words I think are in the password but I've been trying a few and none work.

How many words?
Maybe the words that you think are passwords might be a seed phrase.


If you have the wallet.dat file but you forgot the password you only have one last option to get the right password.
To find the right password you will need to use a recovery tool to bruteforce the password.

Check this one https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover Litecoin is supported with this tool and all guide are inside that link.

[shiftoshi]

Maybe bruteforce, otherwise no way unless you have private key saved. Do you have private key saved for that address?
If you know some parts of the password, it can be easy to recover depending on the length of the password.

I dont have the private key unfortunately I was glad I was able to find the wallet at least. It an old address I haven't used since 2014.

I have a few words I think are in the password but I've been trying a few and none work.

How many words?
Maybe the words that you think are passwords might be a seed phrase.


If you have the wallet.dat file but you forgot the password you only have one last option to get the right password.
To find the right password you will need to use a recovery tool to bruteforce the password.

Check this one https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover Litecoin is supported with this tool and all guide are inside that link.

I have a txt file that says "its the xxx password" where xxx is a password I used for a lot of things in a lot of variations.

so like xxxLTC12345
or LTCxxx12345
or Supersecretxxxpasswordltc
etc.

Thanks for the link, I will have a look.

[Welsh]

If you know most of the password, or at least have a text file that suggests that it was the password, it might be a good idea of bruteforcing the remaining characters, or what usually is the case someone has made a slight typo. There's a lot of software out there depending on the way you want to go about it. BTCRecover used to be a program used by many, and is free. Whether or not it would work with LTC I don't exactly know or remember.

Obviously, if you are going to use it you might want to check its Github, and decide whether you want to take the risk or not. Its the only open source software which I know of. There's several other closed source, but its probably best go with a open source software that you can verify the code yourself, or get someone else who is more adept at programming.

If the structure of LTC is similar to that of Bitcoin, and the wallet functions the same I'm sure the program could be adapted to work, even if it didn't work out of the box. I'm not familiar enough with LTC, or looked at BTCRecover recently enough.

[shiftoshi]

Check this one https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover Litecoin is supported with this tool and all guide are inside that link.

I finally did this and it took 1 second to show the password lol.

I used this guide from an old post;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3049316.msg31472285#msg31472285
I used this repo instead because it supports python3: https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover


Step 0.) Install python
Step 1.) Download BTCRecover from Github: (https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover)
Step 2.) Extract the files to your Desktop, now you should have a folder named "btcrecover-master" on your Desktop
Step 3.) Create a new .txt-file on your Desktop and name it tokens.txt - Open the tokens.txt and write this in it: %6P then put the tokens.txt into the "btcrecover-master" folder (instead I used a list of known passwords in the tokens.txt file)
Step 4.) Make a Copy of your Wallet.dat and copy it in the btcrecover-master folder - Now you have your tokens.txt and your Wallet.dat in the btcrecover-master folder.
Step 5.) Open the command prompt, now you should see this: "C:\Users\XYZ" type here now: "cd desktop" than "cd btcrecover-master" now it should look like this: "C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\btcrecover-master>"
Step 6.) Ok, last Step, type this into the commend prompt: "C:\python27\python btcrecover.py --wallet wallet.dat --no-dupchecks --tokenlist tokens.txt"
Step 7.) Wait for btcrecover to crack your password