Crack GPG Password

[Blaine Fleming]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Fairly easy, I guess if you actually have an unencrypted copy of something
> that was crypted - then you run diff against the output of your new
> decryption and the old data, but if you don't have such a file, there's
> probably nothing as good as your own eyes for knowing when you get it
> right.   Though, if some of your crypted data is in known formats (eg,
> email) you just need to be able to look for strings that are part of the
> protocol (like "Subject: ").
>   


Nah.  You're trying to hard.  With GPG, when decrypting a file it will 
just outright fail if the password provided is wrong.  So basically, if 
it runs successfully then it was able to decrypt and verify the 
signature.  If it fails then try another password.

--Blaine