Typos Quick Start Guide
btcrecover Typos Quick Start Guide
If you only have a single (or just a few) passwords that you'd like to apply some typos to, you can use the following table to pick a set of typos command-line options with which to run btcrecover.
The leftmost column contains the command-line options, with a full set of options on each row (if the options for a row is blank, they're the same as the row above). As a general rule, each successive row of options will try a larger set of typos than the preceding row. You should select a row which includes the same type of wallet you intend to test, along with a password length that's similar to your password(s). The columns on the right will give you a rough estimate of how many password variations there are and of how long btcrecover will take to check the variations (per input password to be tested).
| Typos command-line options | Wallet Type | Password Length | Passwords Checked | Hours Taken |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| --typos 2 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt | Armory | 20 | 15,000 | 0.2 |
| --typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 1 | Armory | 15 | 100,000 | 1.5 |
| Armory | 20 | 200,000 | 3.0 | |
| Bitcoin Core | 20 | 200,000 | 2.0 | |
| --typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 | Armory | 15 | 200,000 | 3.0 |
| Bitcoin Core | 15 | 200,000 | 2.0 | |
| --typos 2 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --typos-insert %a | Armory | 15 | 230,000 | 3.5 |
| Bitcoin Core | 15 | 230,000 | 2.0 | |
| --typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt | Bitcoin Core | 15 | 300,000 | 2.5 |
| --typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 --typos-insert %a --max-typos-insert 1 | Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated | 20 | 10,000,000 | 1.5 |
| --typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 | Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated | 20 | 13,000,000 | 2.0 |
| --typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt | Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated | 15 | 10,000,000 | 1.5 |
| --typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 --typos-insert %a --max-typos-insert 2 | Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated | 15 | 14,000,000 | 2.0 |
| --typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-delete --typos-insert %P --max-typos-insert 2 --no-dupchecks | MultiBit or Electrum | 15 | 125,000,000 | 0.2 |
| MultiBit or Electrum | 20 | 390,000,000 | 0.4 | |
| --typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 --typos-insert %a --max-typos-insert 2 --no-dupchecks | MultiBit or Electrum | 15 | 900,000,000 | 1.2 |
| --typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-delete --typos-insert %P --max-typos-insert 2 --typos-replace %P --max-typos-replace 1 --no-dupchecks | MultiBit or Electrum | 15 | 1,700,000,000 | 2.3 |
Typos Maps
The btcrecover package includes a few typos-map example files in this directory. One of them, us-with-shifts-map.txt, is used in the Quick Start suggestions above.
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us-map.txt- For each key on a standard US ANSI ASCII keyboard, this typos-map file will try an adjacent key to test the case where your finger may have slipped one position while typing a password. This typos-map is only intended for testing passwords which do not contain any shifted letters or symbols. -
us-with-shifts-map.txt- Just likeus-map.txt, except that this typos-map is intended for testing passwords which do contain shifted letters or symbols. In most cases, this typos-map should be used in combination with either the--typos-caseor the--typos-closecaseoption. -
leet-map.txt- This typos-map tests passwords by replacing letters with their leetspeak version(s) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet for more information). -
leet-uncommon-map.txt- Just likeleet-map.txt, except this typos-map contains additional less-common replacements.