How To Install bruteforce-wallet on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bruteforce-wallet on Kali Linux.
What is bruteforce-wallet
bruteforce-wallet try to find the password of an encrypted Peercoin (or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc…) wallet file. It can be used in two ways:
- Try all possible passwords given a charset.
- Try all passwords in a file (dictionary).
bruteforce-wallet have the following features:
- You can specify the number of threads to use when cracking a file.
- Sending a USR1 signal to a running bruteforce-wallet process
makes it print progress and continue.
- There are an exhaustive mode and a dictionary mode.
In the exhaustive mode the program tries to decrypt one of the encrypted addresses in the wallet by trying all the possible passwords. It is especially useful if you know something about the password (i.e. you forgot a part of your password but still remember most of it). Finding the password of a wallet without knowing anything about it would take way too much time (unless the password is really short and/or weak). There are some command line options to specify:
- The minimum password length to try.
- The maximum password length to try.
- The beginning of the password.
- The end of the password.
- The character set to use (among the characters of the current locale).
In dictionary mode the program tries to decrypt one of the encrypted addresses in the wallet by trying all the passwords contained in a file. The file must have one password per line.
This package is useful for finding the password for a Peercoin encrypted wallet file (or Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc …) (i.e. wallet.dat).
There are three ways to install bruteforce-wallet on Kali Linux . We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bruteforce-wallet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bruteforce-wallet using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bruteforce-wallet
Install bruteforce-wallet Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bruteforce-wallet using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bruteforce-wallet
Install bruteforce-wallet Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bruteforce-wallet using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bruteforce-wallet
How To Uninstall bruteforce-wallet on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bruteforce-wallet package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bruteforce-wallet
Uninstall bruteforce-wallet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bruteforce-wallet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bruteforce-wallet
Remove bruteforce-wallet Configurations and Data
To remove bruteforce-wallet configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bruteforce-wallet
Remove bruteforce-wallet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bruteforce-wallet configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bruteforce-wallet
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bruteforce-wallet using different package management tools like apt, apt-get and aptitude.