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, brute-forcing will not corrupt the keystore. However, one thing to note, if you are trying to manually guess the password using the Android Studio or Eclipse wizards, even if you enter a wrong password is provided, even just once, it keeps saying on next attempts: "Keystore tampered with or password incorrect", even if you provide the correct password. To get around this, just close and re-open the wizard.

P.S. If the intent behind asking this question is that you have forgotten your keystore password, then you can try the steps mentioned in the Android keystore password recovery guide.