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Re: Qora | POS | Assets | Names | Polls | Automated Transactions | Social Network
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catbref
on 08/04/2018, 10:21:38 UTC
So i downloaded the newest version of the Qora wallet on another PC. It gave me 2 options. 1. create a new wallet 2. restore from seed. First i went  to restore from seed. I entered my seed but my seed would not fit in the field. My seed is 12 words. then i realized its asking for a seed which base58 encoded 256 bit random key. i dont have a seed like that. Secondly on page to enter the seed it was also asking me for a password which i dont have. so i decided to create a new wallet and try to restore again. But its not letting me create a new account. I suppose because it has to fully sync first. I am waiting for that to complete.

Few questions:

1. Does the the older versions of the wallet accept the 12 word seed? IF so, do you know which verson?
2. Is the password necessary to restore from a seed?
I can't see any code in the history at github that ever created a word-based seed and I can't even find a word list.
Maybe these 12 words are your wallet password? If you still have a copy of your original wallet files you could try that?

12 words using BIP39, not that Bitcoin's BIP39 would apply here, would generate 512 bits/64 bytes of data but the Qora client generates 256 bit/32 byte seeds.

If you want to try converting your 12 words to base58 (via hexadecimal) you could use:
Online BIP39 mnemonic converter
then
Online hex to base58 converter

As far as I can tell, neither of the above tool make network requests to process the data, i.e. they are client-side javascript tools. You may wish to make your own assessment of this and other security concerns of pasting in what is potentially your wallet seed.