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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: recover keys from wallet.dat without using pywallet
by
morbius55
on 08/05/2021, 09:24:40 UTC
When you create a recovered wallet... you have to specify a passphrase that the "recovered wallet.dat" is going to use... you then specify the "possible" passphrases it should try when recovering keys/data etc...

The script attempts to decrypt any encrypted keys found using the "possible" passphrases... and then puts them into the recovered wallet.dat, encrypted with a master key derived from the "recovered wallet.dat" passphrase (NOT the passphrase of the original wallet)
Thought so. I presume that while dumping private keys it wouldn't be impossible to show any decrypted master keys also. It would be a handy feature for any other ckeys that may share the same master key but were not gathered into the recovery.