SYNOPSIS

nasty [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

nasty is a program that helps you to recover the passphrase of your PGP or GPG-key in case you forget or lost it.

OPTIONS

-a x

set minimum length of passphrase

-b x

set maximum length

-m x

set guessing mode:
   incremental: try them all
   random: try at random
   file: read phrases from file (use -i)

-i x

file to read the passphrases from

-f x

file to write the found passphrase to

-c x...

charset, one or more from the following:
   a: a-z
   A: A-Z
   0: 0-9
   .: all ascii values (32...126)
   +: 32...255 (default(!))

-h

show command options

ISSUES

Nasty will not work if you try it with a gpg-agent running in your system. For obvious reasons the agent will ask you the passphrase to access your private key - which you probably don't record, right? :)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).