02-04-2018, 11:12 PM
(02-04-2018, 11:03 PM)Chick3nman Wrote: Your next step should not be a brute force for this algorithm. It's simply too slow to be worth your time/money. You should be working with rules and other options first, based roughly on what you think the password may be. In my experience, rules and other attacks are almost always more efficient than brute force.
Thanks for your input. Indeed, this seems to be the only way forward right now, except had we made some gross error with estimating this. btcrecover certainly does offer a lot of power here (and even GPU acceleration, which I successfully used today). The problem is the certainly amount of luck required to find that golden pattern