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NASTY

NAME

nasty − A tool which helps you to recover your GPG passphrase

SYNOPSIS

nasty [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

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(!))

−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? :)

AUTHOR

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).

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