A tool which helps you to recover your gpg passphrase
nasty [OPTIONS]
nasty is a program that helps you to recover the passphrase of your PGP or GPG-key in case you forget or lost it.
-a x
set minimum length of passphrase
-b x
set maximum length
-m x
set guessing mode:
incremental: try them all
random: try at random
file: read phrases from file (use -i)
-i x
file to read the passphrases from
-f x
file to write the found passphrase to
-c x...
charset, one or more from the following:
a: a-z
A: A-Z
0: 0-9
.: all ascii values (32...126)
+: 32...255 (default(!))
-h
show command options
Nasty will not work if you try it with a gpg-agent running in your system. For obvious reasons the agent will ask you the passphrase to access your private key - which you probably don't record, right? :)
This manual page was written by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).