I did something quite stupid while renewing my Keepass master password: a typo.
I quickly checked what I did type before validating but I obviously overlooked something because it simply doesn't work anymore.
It is not a file corruption problem (my other .kbdx files are fine, so are all the key files) and I've started testing some possibles typos with no luck so far.
Since I don't have neither the computing power nor the 50 millions year ahead of me (as explained here), I've looked for a way to methodically generate a dictionary file with all variations around the original password in order to brute-force my .kdbx file. I just found this goes way above my scripting capabilities :(
What I do know is:
- It looked good so I'm quite sure there is no more than one typo,
- the password is 15 chars long (plus or minus the typo),
- the central portion of the password is 5 digits and I'm sure this part is OK, the problem must be in the 5 chars before or after.
What I don't is there to go from here... So if somebody as already done something similar or can provide any help, I would be quite grateful (and so will be the community of distracted people!)
(if you ask: I'm not entirely stupid: I do backups so I've only lost 2 weeks of new passwords... I just don't like it then computers win!)
Best regards.