NASTY(1)

NAME
nasty - A tool which helps you to recover your GPG passphrase

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(!))

-k x
    filter string to select a key

-v  enable verbose mode

-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 <tiago@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).