nasty1

Usage

Overview

nasty is a program that helps you to recover the passphrase of your PGP or GPG-key in case you forget or lost it.

Options

-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(!))

-k x

filter string to select a key

-v

enable verbose mode

-h

show command options

Issues

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? :)