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making decrypting more easy

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yehoudin

20 Jan, 2012 08:59 PM

hi there

if a file or text is encrypted to multiple keys, and i have more than one private key in my keychaine, i have to enter the password for each key seperately. in pgg, the passphrase entered tries all keys at once. this is more comfortable. maybe you add that here too?

my problem is that i do use multiple keys, and after migration from pgp8/win to pgp 10 on mac and now to gpgtools, some passphrases don't work no more because of special characters ( i verfied this on my old win system, i entered the passphrase correctely, but the old system exist no more).

so now, when i want to decrypt, i have to enter 3x3 times what ever before i can decrypt with a last key, that accepts the original passphrase. Or i could change the passphrases: however i need a bruteforce tool to get the new correct passphrase for gpg.... anyone knows programs that bruteforce around a passphrase i give? e.g., i give "§password" and the program tries "!password", %password, and so on....?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Luke Le on 20 Jan, 2012 10:15 PM

   

   Hi!

   I've search the internet for you a little and the only thing I could come up with
   is the --try-all-secrets.
   We'll have to test this intensively to see if we can add it to our tools, but let me know if it works for you on command line and we'll look into it.

   1.) Open Terminal.app
   2.) Type the following command and press enter after it

   gpg --decrypt --passphrase your-passphrase --try-all-secrets your-file

   The --passphrase bit might not be necessary.

   Hope that helps at least a little and let us know the result

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2. Alex closed this discussion on 28 Feb, 2012 08:01 PM.