The passphrase is used to actually encrypt the private key.
The only way is to try lots and lots of passphrases until you find the
right one.
If you remember some parts of the passphrase (like "It was one of my
family members
birthday written backwards followed by the word TeaPot with some
combination of upper
and lower case"), then the number of possibilities is limited to a few
hundred or thousand
possible passphrases, and you could create a small shell or perl script
that tries them
all in less than a few days.
But if it was a good passphrase, and you really have no idea what it
was, then there
is no realistic way to crack it.
On 10/19/2011 11:28 AM, raki42 wrote:
Hi all
I had generated SSL self signed certificates and deployed on m system, where
i had saved m passphrase. Like 5 months back.
Now i am unable to find the document where i had saved passphrase , and
unable to retireve the Pass phrase for the SSL certificates
can any one please help me regarding this, like how to retrieve the SSL pass
phrase , or assign a new pass phrase for the same private key.
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