Crack GPG Password

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Bart Silverstrim
<bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Liam McCombes <liammccombes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So, I forgot my GPG password. I hadn't used it for a while and it just
>>> slipped my mind. It's about 20 characters long. I do, however, remember the
>>> first 15 or so characters. Is there any program which I could enter in the
>>> known digits and have it use those to crack the rest? I understand this
>>> process could take a pretty long time but if anyone can help me out, I'd be
>>> really grateful ( and would be less stupid in the future).
>>
>> Ouch.  I guess you tried finding any documents that have the known
>> characters in them?
>
> ? I don't understand what you mean here, but I doubt that the OP will
> find anything like what they are asking. GPG isn't like the movies...you
> can't have only a portion of a password and crack the remaining
> digits/characters. It's kind of an all or nothing deal...I mean, if you
> encrypt something, then encrypt it again with a password that's one off
> in characters, you should get something that looks completely different.

Nah - I was just thinking he might have pasted it (the passphrase, not
the key) into a document somewhere.  Of course you're not *supposed*
to save your passphrase like that, but...

Chris

Chris