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.
Yes you can do that if you want, but then I'm probably quite limited in what I can help with...
Do you have any idea what might be happening from the look of it? I am considering two possibilities:
- Someone somehow was able to put malware on my one month old computer, and somehow intervened the wallet creation process and modified the wallet before I encrypt it.
- Electrum has bug.
I will be off for the next few hours, and I appreciate all of your inputs.