<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM Daniele Nicolodi via Gnupg-users <<a href="mailto:gnupg-users@gnupg.org">gnupg-users@gnupg.org</a>> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have an oldish GPG key for which I have lost the passphrase. I have a <br>
very good idea of what the passphrase is constructed but there are some <br>
characters substitution that I must have used back then really escape my <br>
memory now. I think that a tool like John the Ripper could make easy <br>
work in retrieving it.<br>
Does anyone know how to run john on a private key stored in the format <br>
used by the new keystore used by gpg2?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>dunno much about new format or so? can this still work in this old blog post?</div><div>maybe use an older gpg release on the private key file to export?</div><div><br></div><div>> <<a href="https://blog.atucom.net/2015/08/cracking-gpg-key-passwords-using-john.html">https://blog.atucom.net/2015/08/cracking-gpg-key-passwords-using-john.html</a>></div></div></div>