Submitted 9 months ago by WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
I forgot my Bitwarden password and I know most of the words, I am missing one word and I know the starting letter of of the word. Is there like a strategy to guessing passwords? Is there a program to assist in guessing passwords? I feel like guessing manually would take months.
Did you pay for Bitwarden? If so, contact their customer support. They’re helped me out of a jam before in an Enterprise environment.
I don’t have paid plans, but even if you did, how does support even help? Isn’t it supposed to be end to end encrypted?
Paid enterprise customers can configure bitwarden to have an emergency account recovery option. This lets them recover access to bitwarden using the orginization’s private key.
Its not an option normal users have. Good luck remembering your password.
Maybe they could allow you to brute-force your password without CAPTCHAs?
When I forgot part of my my old password, I came up with a list of words that I possibly could have come up with and tried those. I eventually found it even if I was panicky the whole time. If I were you, I would list the words and try them in the order of probabilities.
Un/Fortunately, BW is implemented to rate-limit password brute-forcing. I feel you about your CAPTCHA hell, and I hate their surreal sunflower CAPTCHA (maybe to make it as repulsive as possible to the hackers?).
The fastest method is contacting Bitwarden as another user mentioned. Bitwarden can discuss their options and may be able to help you recover access to your vault if you have a recovery email.
Because of entropy, a pass phrase is extremely hard to “crack”. It would take a modern computer tens of thousand years nonstop to typically crack a pass phrase. Just ask people who hold Bitcoin and lost their 12 or 24 word passphrase (seed) if they were able to recover their BTC.
Since you believe you know the starting letter of the missing word (and this assumes you’re 100% sure, there’s always risk your memory is wrong), you could start by using every word in the English dictionary that starts with that letter (would take you years). Hopefully all the other words are correct and you haven’t misremembered them or placed them out of order. If any word is out of order, unfortunately increase your recovery time to tens of thousands of years.
Finally, the purpose of a password manager is to have only one password or passphrase to write down. Never, ever trust your memory, because human memory is fallible - one fall to the ground and hitting your head could wipe out your memory or cognitive function. Write your next passphrase on paper in graphite pencil (pencil lead last thousands of years longer than ink) and store it in a fireproof safe. If you want to be extra sure, you can stamp it in stainless steel. Don’t store things in lock boxes at banks - banks have a tendency to lose your stuff, or if they shut down they have no obligation to provide you the contents of your lock box.
Best of luck to you.
Might be better off spending your time resetting all the passwords that were saved in your bw acct
Way to much effort. And some cannot be reset like Lemmy accounts without an email attached to them (I kinda don’t wanna bother the admins for password reset). Protonmail password would also be really difficult to reset, because you have to remember the precise date you created the account and a lot of different stuff. Which is more difficult than finding a words in a dictionary.
Did you use a system of some kind when coming up with it? Like some I’ve seen suggested in the past are things like “3rd word of favorite song+seconds pets name+last 4 digits of serial number on your fridge”
Anything like that?
I don’t know what the best system would be but is the phrase something that makes sense? Like, if the phrase was “there is no god here” and you had “t__ is no god here” there aren’t that many words that fit.
Also do you have an unlimited number of guesses or will it lock you out at some point?
I have unlimited guesses, but have to solve a captcha for each attempt. This is literally captcha hell. By the time I find the password, I’d probably a pro at solving captchas. 🥲
PrettyBlackDress@lemdit.com 9 months ago
Have I been powned
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 months ago
That’s a great suggestion, use the hackers to your advantage