countzero/brute_force_bip38

A brute-force decoder of BIP38 encoded private keys for the CLI.

brute-force BIP38

A brute-force decoder of BIP38 encoded private keys for the CLI.

Installation

Install dependencies

Download and install the latest version from:

• Node.js LTS (installs 'node' and 'npm')

Clone repository

Clone the brute-force BIP38 repository to a nice place on your machine via:

git clone https://github.com/stadtwerk/company_communication_core.git

Build

Fire up your console at the project location and execute:

npm install
npm link

Configuration

1. Edit the config.json and paste the publicAddress and encryptedPrivateKey values of your BIP38 encoded key.
2. Edit the secrets.js so that it will return an array of all secrets you want to test on your BIP38 encoded key.

Start

Fire up your console at the project location and execute:

brutebip38

The application will now utilize all available CPUs to test each secret against your BIP38 encoded private key. Invalid secrets are logged out to invalid_secrets.json. If a valid secret has been found it will be logged out to valid_secret.json.

License

brute-force BIP38 is released under the MIT license.

brute_force_bip38's Issues

Question

Thanks for developing this tool! I've been looking at the secrets.json file. Is there a way to test passwords with first letter caps also? And would it be possible to loop through a larger password list? I have around 10 words that I want to test, or maybe use a user defined password list as input?

Invalid BIP38 data length

Thanks for the good program.
I created a public and private address with bitaddress.org.
I changed the config.json file.
I started brutebip38 and get this error message, but the program works further.
what does the error message mean?
what shall I do?

(sorry, I'm a German and myxc english ist poor ....)

Thanks
Andreas

Out of memory?

Not sure if being out of memory is the issue but it would seem that it is since it states "heap limit allocation failed" within the following error message:

C:\Users\*****\Documents\GitHub\brute_force_bip38>brutebip38

<--- Last few GCs --->

[25836:00000205FD515280]    50759 ms: Scavenge (reduce) 4094.8 (4099.8) -> 4094.1 (4101.1) MB, 3.1 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.244, current mu = 0.222) allocation failure
[25836:00000205FD515280]    50763 ms: Scavenge (reduce) 4095.0 (4100.1) -> 4094.2 (4101.1) MB, 3.0 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.244, current mu = 0.222) allocation failure
[25836:00000205FD515280]    50768 ms: Scavenge (reduce) 4095.1 (4103.1) -> 4094.4 (4103.3) MB, 3.1 / 0.0 ms  (average mu = 0.244, current mu = 0.222) allocation failure


<--- JS stacktrace --->

FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
 1: 00007FF61A644BDF napi_wrap+111007
 2: 00007FF61A5E8166 v8::base::CPU::has_sse+59910
 3: 00007FF61A5E9066 node::OnFatalError+294
 4: 00007FF61AEC217E v8::Isolate::ReportExternalAllocationLimitReached+94
 5: 00007FF61AEA6F4D v8::SharedArrayBuffer::Externalize+781
 6: 00007FF61AD5008C v8::internal::Heap::EphemeronKeyWriteBarrierFromCode+1516
 7: 00007FF61AD5B4AA v8::internal::Heap::ProtectUnprotectedMemoryChunks+1258
 8: 00007FF61AD585E9 v8::internal::Heap::PageFlagsAreConsistent+2457
 9: 00007FF61AD4D181 v8::internal::Heap::CollectGarbage+2049
10: 00007FF61AD4B385 v8::internal::Heap::AllocateExternalBackingStore+1349
11: 00007FF61AD6B7FB v8::internal::Factory::NewFillerObject+203
12: 00007FF61AA9A2D1 v8::internal::interpreter::JumpTableTargetOffsets::iterator::operator=+1409
13: 00007FF61AF4B03D v8::internal::SetupIsolateDelegate::SetupHeap+465325
14: 00000264745458A8

Can't seem to clone on Mac using Terminal

Trying to clone per the installation instructions. Get request for UN. Enter it and get request for PW and see icon for PW entry. Can't seem to enter anything. Nothing shows up, either when I type PW or when I cut and paste. Every time I enter (even without any text), I get

remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for https://github.com/stadtwerk/company_communication_core.git/'

I know my UN and PW are correct.

AppleSupport says it's not a Terminal issue. Any suggestions for a workaround? Thanks.