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(!))
- -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? :)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).