.TH NASTY "1" "September 2009" "nasty " "User Commands"
.SH NAME
nasty \- A tool which helps you to recover your GPG passphrase
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nasty
[\fIOPTIONS\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B nasty
is a program that helps you to recover the passphrase of your PGP or GPG-key in
case you forget or lost it.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-a x\fR
set minimum length of passphrase
.TP
\fB\-b x\fR
set maximum length
.TP
\fB\-m x\fR
set guessing mode:
.BR
   \fBincremental\fR: try them all
.BR
   \fBrandom\fR: try at random
.BR
   \fBfile\fR: read phrases from file (use \-i)
.TP
\fB\-i x\fR
file to read the passphrases from
.TP
\fB\-f x\fR
file to write the found passphrase to
.TP
\fB\-c x...\fR
charset, one or more from the following:
.BR
   a: a\-z
.BR
   A: A\-Z
.BR
   0: 0\-9
.BR
   .: all ascii values (32...126)
.BR
   +: 32...255 (default(!))

.TP
\fB\-h\fR
show command options
.SH ISSUES
.PP
Nasty will not work if you try it with a gpg-agent running in your system. For
obvious reasons the agent will ask you the passphrase to access your private
key - which you probably don't record, right? :)
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
This manual page was written by Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <tiago@debian.org> for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).