Typos_Quick_Start_Guide.md

btcrecover Typos Quick Start Guide

If you only have a single (or just a few) passwords that you'd like to apply some typos to, you can use the following table to pick a set of typos command-line options with which to run btcrecover.

The leftmost column contains the command-line options, with a full set of options on each row (if the options for a row is blank, they're the same as the row above). As a general rule, each successive row of options will try a larger set of typos than the preceding row. You should select a row which includes the same type of wallet you intend to test, along with a password length that's similar to your password(s). The columns on the right will give you a rough estimate of how many password variations there are and of how long btcrecover will take to check the variations (per input password to be tested).

Typos command-line options	Wallet Type	Password Length	Passwords Checked	Hours Taken
--typos 2 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt	Armory	20	15,000	0.2
--typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 1	Armory	15	100,000	1.5
	Armory	20	200,000	3.0
	Bitcoin Core	20	200,000	2.0
--typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2	Armory	15	200,000	3.0
	Bitcoin Core	15	200,000	2.0
--typos 2 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --typos-insert %a	Armory	15	230,000	3.5
	Bitcoin Core	15	230,000	2.0
--typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt	Bitcoin Core	15	300,000	2.5
--typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 --typos-insert %a --max-typos-insert 1	Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated	20	10,000,000	1.5
--typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2	Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated	20	13,000,000	2.0
--typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt	Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated	15	10,000,000	1.5
--typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-closecase --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 --typos-insert %a --max-typos-insert 2	Bitcoin Core, GPU accelerated	15	14,000,000	2.0
--typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-delete --typos-insert %P --max-typos-insert 2 --no-dupchecks	MultiBit or Electrum	15	125,000,000	0.2
	MultiBit or Electrum	20	390,000,000	0.4
--typos 4 --typos-capslock --typos-swap --typos-repeat --typos-delete --typos-case --typos-map typos\us-with-shifts-map.txt --max-typos-map 2 --typos-insert %a --max-typos-insert 2 --no-dupchecks	MultiBit or Electrum	15	900,000,000	1.2
--typos 3 --typos-capslock --typos-delete --typos-insert %P --max-typos-insert 2 --typos-replace %P --max-typos-replace 1 --no-dupchecks	MultiBit or Electrum	15	1,700,000,000	2.3

Typos Maps

The btcrecover package includes a few typos-map example files in this directory. One of them, us-with-shifts-map.txt, is used in the Quick Start suggestions above.

• us-map.txt - For each key on a standard US ANSI ASCII keyboard, this typos-map file will try an adjacent key to test the case where your finger may have slipped one position while typing a password. This typos-map is only intended for testing passwords which do not contain any shifted letters or symbols.

• us-with-shifts-map.txt - Just like us-map.txt, except that this typos-map is intended for testing passwords which do contain shifted letters or symbols. In most cases, this typos-map should be used in combination with either the --typos-case or the --typos-closecase option.

• leet-map.txt - This typos-map tests passwords by replacing letters with their leetspeak version(s) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet for more information).

• leet-uncommon-map.txt - Just like leet-map.txt, except this typos-map contains additional less-common replacements.