So I have friend who had some bitcoin stored with a ledger wallet. They used the function where you have a dummy wallet in case someone gets access. They still have their 24 words but the real wallet copntaing the bitcoin was also behind a pin number and a password , I think.
So when they tried to access the bitcoin they only were able to access the dummy wallet. They cannot remember the password.
Will they still be able to use the seed words in another wallet with the same derivation path, even if they also used a password?
Or will they need to remember the password too?
Thanks
The set of private keys created in Ledger from SEED + password is different from that one derived from the bare SEED. So to access his fund in another BIP39 compatible wallet your friend needs both things i.e. SEED and his used password, the single SEED will not help him. He cold try offline iancoleman.io/bip39/ tool to find his password.
Thanks for this. And thank you to everyone who helped. My friend thinks she can narrow down the passphrase but wants to establish what is the correct phrase before trying too many times in ledger.
So can we just use the iancoleman site to try different combinations?
If we can do this, do we just use the BIP39 part and do we enter the 24 words in the seed section or the Mnemonic section?
Can we enter these in and find the corresponding addresses?
She knows the address that has the bitcoin.
Thanks again