Bitcoin hits year-high of $20

Re:Bitcoin hits year-high of $20 by truebecomefalse on Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:54PM (#5146601)

I have a wallet with ~2,400BTC and I forgot my encryption passphrase. It was >400 chars and I know most of it but I'm making some mistake somewhere in my recall. If the value keeps going up I'm going to have to get serious about cracking that wallet.

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Re:Bitcoin hits year-high of $20 by KPLauritzen on Thursday January 31, 2013 @03:23PM (#5147196)

I would think that roughly 50k USD would be enough incentive for most people to start remembering REALLY hard

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Re:Bitcoin hits year-high of $20 by truebecomefalse on Thursday January 31, 2013 @04:01PM (#5147438)

I meant measures beyond remembering really hard. Writing software to brute force it with the bits I already know. Believe me I'm pretty unhappy about the situation.

Provisioning EC2 GPU instances and the like and writing the grammars.

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Re:Bitcoin hits year-high of $20 by chii on Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:30PM (#5148840)

a 400 char passphrase? dude, thats crazy.

If someone has the incentive to break into your wallet, all you need is a phrase long enough to make physical violence a better alternative for the attacker, and you're set, no need to make the phrase any longer.

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