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Geth Ethereum Keystore password recovery - LowellChief - 12-28-2024
Hello- I have a small amount of Ethereum that I mined back in 2017-2018 using a GETH wallet I created. I believe my wife accidently threw away my password that I wrote on a bill for this wallet. I do have the keystore file backed up.
I used this link to create my keystore hash
https://stealthsploit.com/2017/06/12/ethereum-wallet-cracking/
I set my txt file up in a similar way except I used "262144" instead of 1024 for the N value
I created a password txt file using several combinations of passwords I used from back then
I'm using hashcat 6.2.6 and windows 11
I've opened a terminal in hashcat and tried a few of the commands I've found out there and added my hash.txt and password.txt in the line but just had a series of errors that do not work
Honestly, I was able to build 4 ETh mining rigs but I have not a clue what I am doing in trying to crack this password.
Any suggestions on how I should enter my command line in hashcat?
Thank you, LC
RE: Geth Ethereum Keystore password recovery - TheBogeyman - 12-29-2024
(Yesterday, 10:04 PM)LowellChief Wrote: Hello- I have a small amount of Ethereum that I mined back in 2017-2018 using a GETH wallet I created. I believe my wife accidently threw away my password that I wrote on a bill for this wallet. I do have the keystore file backed up.
I used this link to create my keystore hash
https://stealthsploit.com/2017/06/12/ethereum-wallet-cracking/
I set my txt file up in a similar way except I used "262144" instead of 1024 for the N value
I created a password txt file using several combinations of passwords I used from back then
I'm using hashcat 6.2.6 and windows 11
I've opened a terminal in hashcat and tried a few of the commands I've found out there and added my hash.txt and password.txt in the line but just had a series of errors that do not work
Honestly, I was able to build 4 ETh mining rigs but I have not a clue what I am doing in trying to crack this password.
Any suggestions on how I should enter my command line in hashcat?
Thank you, LC
Save hash in ETHhash.txt and save it in hashcat directory.
Then, and that is most important, decide, how would you like to try to recover password. If you want only to test all letters, it vould take time and it is useless,.. if you know aproximatly what structure password was, that would help a lot (leinght of password, what was created-numbers, letters, special characters) or maybe created from different words (example: horsetableblue11,...)....
ETH hash is relatively slow to crack and if you dont know even close, what password is, currently forget it.