How to Install and Uninstall bruteforce-wallet Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: April 24,2024

1. Install "bruteforce-wallet" package

This is a short guide on how to install bruteforce-wallet on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall bruteforce-wallet on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bruteforce-wallet package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: bruteforce-wallet
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.5.3-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 55
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libdb5.3, libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0)
Filename: pool/universe/b/bruteforce-wallet/bruteforce-wallet_1.5.3-4_amd64.deb
Size: 15668
MD5sum: d9fcfdc29ea52c2036bab9e2d8dda434
SHA1: aa69217b566467b8a87a071e6569831c6c69cdf7
SHA256: 3cc287a589606967b111b3fb1aca49486df2199f9155af9043a7222172ba82a8
SHA512: 31296bc9d7844d5394f869c109475791117d8a2e9433a9e7275a22cd3428fe6fdd16f6e26f12be17d099726add2c67c639b65e4ed0516e8c1e5db262d710337f
Homepage: https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-wallet
Description-en: 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: 267e4f36bf48661a398ee6ad4594a317