CertificatePasswordRecovery

This repository holds the code for a simple tool that can be used to brute-force encryption keys to unlock private keys from .pfx files.

Publishing this in the hopes it'll be helpful to someone - and because it's easier to host samples here than on my blog :)

Note, that brute-forcing passwords is, in any case, very slow.

Repository contents

This repository contains the following solutions:

• CertificatePasswordRecovery: The original password recovery tool by boredwookie(?),
  • Documentation and the original download package available on his site: https://7thzero.com/blog/certificate-password-recovery-tool
• CertificatePasswordRecovery2: A modernized password recovery tool version by koskila
  • Core improvements:
    • Multi-threaded
    • NET5
    • Around 9-10 times performance improvement
  • See this post for details: How to recover the private key of a (.pfx) certificate?
• Compile: Compile Version of code for Windows from modernized password recovery tool version by koskila

Compile Contact

• https://tutari.net

Contact

• https://www.koskila.net/contact
• https://twitter.com/koskila

Original author

• https://github.com/boredwookie
• https://7thzero.com/