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Cracking Forgotten Passwords

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Expandpass is a string expansion program. It’s “useful for cracking passwords you kinda-remember.” You tell the program what you remember about the password and it tries related passwords.

I learned about it in this article about Phil Dougherty, who helps people recover lost cryptocurrency passwords (mostly Ethereum) for a cut of the recovered value.

Tags: cryptocurrency, passwords

Posted on September 18, 2019 at 7:42 AM16 Comments

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