KeyUtils - Open-Source Key Recovery

[Pecon]

So I suppose there's no way to recover a key that I brought over from an old hard drive and am trying to recover using a key made on this computer?

No. You would need to boot the machine which made that key file and use the recovery tool, or have a second working key file from that same computer which you do know the key for.

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[Farad]

I was able to recover my original key like 3 years after forgetting it :]

[Admiral Obvious]

So I have both my and my brother's keys, would that help?

[Ipquarx]

So I have both my and my brother's keys, would that help?

Assuming they were made on the same computer at relatively the same time, and assuming we were to use the more advanced recovery methods I've developed... In theory yes, in practice not really. It reduces the total number of possible keys from 2⁶⁰ (a darn huge number) down to anywhere from 189 million to 3 billion. (~2²⁷-2³²) That would take a loooong time to recover.

If you have a console.log from back then it would help more as well, but again it would still be in the hundreds of millions at the very least.

If you had 3 keydats, it would reduce the workload by a factor of about 1000.

[Ipquarx]

Bump

[Greek2me]

This deserves a sticky. Maybe in the Help board.

[Ipquarx]

Last bump for a while, will hopefully be able to add in some new features relatively soon.