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Board Electrum
Re: Unable to use the seed from a wallet file to make any transaction
by
Hexcolyte
on 01/09/2018, 16:51:17 UTC
If I am sending you a wallet file and left it unencrypted that means my private key is also at risk, so I am not going to do that. But even the file is encrypted, you can still get some idea from it? Also there is no point in giving you free money just to damage your reputation.

Nah. You wouldn't send it decrypted, I'd get you to decrypt it and then use the encrypt function in your electrum wallet to encrypt the wallet with my bitcoin address assymetrically (then I can use my private key to decrypt it)...

The second bit was my point entirely. If I get access to your wallet, then I can not be held liable to anything that happens to the coins once it is transmitted just in case a hacker does get hold of the stuff from your computer.

If you can assymetrically encrypt a decrypted version of the wallet file with bc1qdj5v2q8p398rdy6sexc0fapk4hcq0p54xz56ez or 1JRmjyGo3kpdXcQeAeTBmGtgkC1AomHKED then I can take a look at it but make sure you can't decrypt it with the same private key.

If instead you want to decrypt the main wallet file but keep the private keys encrypted (which is honestly what I'd suggest) then still encrypt the wallet file with one of those public keys/addresses...

(the encrypt function is just below the sign function under tools)

Once the wallet file is decrypted, even if the private keys are encrypted, the file should have plain english in it with {} separating individual parts (as far as I can remember).

Not sure what can you see in a decrypted wallet file, for me it is just a bunch of Bitcoin addresses and some keys. If this works, I can simply send you the texts, then only remove the important private key out of the text, no need of encryption.
I am not a pro in this area so forgive me for my ignorance.