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Re: Hex pattern for electrum wallet
by
HCP
on 02/04/2020, 20:04:18 UTC
⭐ Merited by Heisenberg_Hunter (1) ,hosseinimr93 (1) ,ETFbitcoin (1) ,BitMaxz (1)
That depends on whether or not a password was used and/or whether or not full file encryption was used.

Electrum supports THREE different options:

1. Unencrypted (wallet is stored in plaintext)
  - No password required

2. "Secrets only" encrypted (wallet is still plaintext, but the "secrets" (private keys/seeds etc) are encrypted)
  - Wallet will open without the password, but password required to send transactions/view seed and private keys etc

3. Full file encryption
  - Wallet will not even open without password


In any case, the file itself is just a simple text file... not sure you'll find a "standard" hex pattern that will guarantee identification of an Electrum wallet file.

In cases #1 & #2, a plaintext file search for: "wallet_type" should find those... In case #3, I've some that end in == and some that end in = and some that don't...