Forgot Keystore password, thinking of Brute-Force detection. will it corrupt the keystore?

Question

I recently realized that I have lost the password to my keystore (or perhaps the keystore got corrupted somehow)

It keeps giving me the error: Keystore tampered or p

Answer 1

No amount of password attempts will corrupt the key.

I was having this same issue. I solved the problem by creating my own keystore brute force application.

here is a link to the github repository for this code.

https://github.com/volure/keystoreBrute

Anyone on the planet may use this or add to it.

It Works on the basis of Password segments.

My password was like

foo@543Pass

so I added all the possible segments

foo Foo FOO

and so on. Then ran through the items like an odometer.

Its crude code but hard coded to work on up to 5 segments.

My attempt was successful. Hope yours is too.