Yo John,

It's probably about time to fess up. There is a very good chance I did use Keypass for the private keys. Master key is the dead giveaway. It's been on my radar along with encrypted keys from the get go just didn't know where it fit in.

My memory squishes everything I've ever done together when it comes to encryption. I was sure PGP keys were used same as what you would use for encrypted messages but I was getting them confused with private keys.

Was talking to a mate (computer programmer) about it the other day & he was adament PGP keys in there format were never used then imported into a program to create a wallet. I tried arguing with him & was meant to go away from the conversation then prove him wrong. Turns out he's right I'm wrong & what you have suggested is a piece of the puzzle I'm missing

I'm not exactly sure what I should & shouldn't be sharing on a forum that can be seen by the entire world. Just trying to play it pretty safe right now. I do appreciate your help so far & I've always found that honesty is best policy in life & it doesn't feel right not to confess before I move forward. Just been playing a bit "dumb" on the thread so people don't take too much notice of it unless they really know what they are talking about. I knew most of what people would say already ie. Mnemonics on blockchain.info, Github & wallet.dat blah blah blah.

I haven't figured out where the 8 words fit in to Keypass yet nor have i tried Googling it either. Been waiting for my mate to reply to yestersdays messages with the new information but he takes forever.

Been talking on Signal not SMS & he keeps notifications off. No doubt hes sick of getting message bombed by me for 2 weeks straight. Using his account as a record of what we both come up with as we go.

Plan on getting a new computer for anything that has to happen off-line that's never connected to a network. My understanding is thats an air gapped computer.

Ive read horror stories of people losing coins to malicious code written into programs on Github. If I'm going to keep going down this road I want to do it right & double then triple check everything I do before I do it.

Right now I'm assuming the next step is definitely the new computer along with downloading older version of Keypass to see what the story was at the time.

Open to suggestions. Appreciate your help & you will not be forgotten if I do manage to pull this miracle off.

Kind Regards,

UJ

There's my message to John for everyone to see. I see no issue posting this after some thought. As of now two people on this forum have been emailed pics of the Seagate drive I keep banging on about. Seagate 1TB not 2TB Barracuda. Released Q1 2011. I bought the coins before drive was ever released so there your concrete evidence it happened in 2010 folks.

I know this forum has the knowledge & talent to figure this out. Ive seen alsorts of crazy stuff being done on here. Just need the right people to take me seriously. Here's an example of what I'm talking about...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5249764.0

And here's the target address...

https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/19DdkMxutkLGY67REFPLu51imfxG9CUJLD

Nothing else makes any sense for a $200 AUD transaction. Plan on going to the cryptology department at MIT next. I'm not fooling around I'm just plain lost & being overly cautious. It's only been two weeks since starting this wallet rebuild quest started. The external drive stuff has to be secondary till Xmas. Even then I might not finding anything & it's just waiting two months.