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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: pywallet question
by
takuma sato
on 18/04/2025, 20:39:59 UTC
so i found an old wallet.dat file of mine. ran it through pywallet and the output says"The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is use"
what does that mean?

I never used pywallet and that is a quite confusing sentence. How could it be encrypted without a password? If something is encrypted, it should require something to decrypt it, which as far as I know is always a password, or you can call it whatever you want, what I mean is it requires an input.

This is what I was able to find, so check it out:



This means you ran pywallet without the --password option.  It does not mean the wallet has an empty passphrase.


Go on that thread and probably there is an answer somewhere.