nasty − 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 |
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−b x |
set maximum length |
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−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 |
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−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 <tiago AT debian DOT org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).