Re: Bitcoin Core won't take my passphrase

I extracted the hash from the wallet

There is no hashed password stored in the wallet to extract. What exactly did you do?

I ran bitcoin2john.py command that came with John the Ripper.

This means that JtR was able to decrypt the mkey (and verify that the padding bytes were correct, which makes it extremely likely that the password was correct). JtR doesn't try to actually decrypt any private keys to check them against the stored public keys.

If the first private key, or its associated public key, is corrupted, this will happen (although that seems unlikely to me...). If this is the case, `pywallet.py --recover` can help.

CDNinATL, can you let us know how this turns out? I'm personally interested...

Also, does your password contain any non-ASCII characters (any characters not list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_code_chart)?

No. Capital and lower case letters, numbers and the tilde key. I wasn't sure if the tilde was the issue but I was able to encrypt a blank wallet and then successfully change the password.

I'll try the pywallet thing later. Right now I'm up against washing machine and a bearing that doesn't want to be replaced!