How to Install and Uninstall bruteforce-wallet Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 06,2024

1. Install "bruteforce-wallet" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install bruteforce-wallet on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bruteforce-wallet
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bruteforce-wallet" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall bruteforce-wallet on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bruteforce-wallet package on Kali Linux

Package: bruteforce-wallet
Version: 1.5.3-6
Installed-Size: 52
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libdb5.3, libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Size: 16124
SHA256: e13ef328048094827ba1b7cb87c50aca6dd5bd9a3d5408eec3dc8466452b0e26
SHA1: fdb166d7ff34c8716b1a7e73f0fd4b5704d1d36f
MD5sum: a67ef0a41fec6a8dc0ec35ff02855233
Description: try to find the password of an encrypted wallet file
bruteforce-wallet try to find the password of an encrypted
Peercoin (or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc...) wallet file.
It can be used in two ways:
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- Try all possible passwords given a charset.
- Try all passwords in a file (dictionary).
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bruteforce-wallet have the following features:
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- You can specify the number of threads to use when cracking a file.
- Sending a USR1 signal to a running bruteforce-wallet process
makes it print progress and continue.
- There are an exhaustive mode and a dictionary mode.
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In the exhaustive mode the program tries to decrypt one of the encrypted
addresses in the wallet by trying all the possible passwords.
It is especially useful if you know something about the password
(i.e. you forgot a part of your password but still remember most of it).
Finding the password of a wallet without knowing anything about it would
take way too much time (unless the password is really short and/or weak).
There are some command line options to specify:
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- The minimum password length to try.
- The maximum password length to try.
- The beginning of the password.
- The end of the password.
- The character set to use (among the characters of the current locale).
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In dictionary mode the program tries to decrypt one of the encrypted
addresses in the wallet by trying all the passwords contained in a file.
The file must have one password per line.
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This package is useful for finding the password for a Peercoin encrypted
wallet file (or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc ...) (i.e. wallet.dat).
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-wallet
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bruteforce-wallet/bruteforce-wallet_1.5.3-6_amd64.deb