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Raven core wallet passphrase minimum requirement on older version 2.2.2.0 and earlier #882

Closed cupidchild closed 3 years ago

cupidchild commented 3 years ago

Does anyone know if there was any minimum length requirement on older wallet passphrase that had to be created? Version 2.2.2.0 and early version?

I remember creating some simple, one word passphrase on 0.15 version however after upgrading to a later version of Raven Wallet like 2.0.2 , the wallet passphrase does not work. So now I need to resort to trying to figure out the passphrase on it. I don't think it matter what version I am running since wallet.dat file is the same along with whatever passphrase it has in it.

I didn't find any information on wiki nor readme, that mentions what the minimum length has to be.

This is before the wallet supported 24 words password. So any information on password requirement would help.

thanks!

RavencoinFoundationTron commented 3 years ago

I am not aware of changes that were made that would prevent previous passwords from working. However, I have heard from 2 people that have contacted me directly with a similar issue (or wrote down passwords wrong). I will be meeting personally with one of them - likely later this week - to see what I can learn.

If anyone is having the same problem, comment here, so we can see if there's a pattern.

cupidchild commented 3 years ago

I have my wallet.dat file. and currently on Raven QT wallet version 2.2.2.0-xxx and all sync-ed up. I see the quantity of my ravencoin and of course when I try to send coins to some address, that's when it askes for the passphrase of the wallet. I am not going to upgrade my wallet to the latest, in fear that I will loose something.. lol I am in the process of building a PC with good GPU so that I can use btcreovery program to crack the password.

But please do let me know what you find.
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cupidchild commented 3 years ago

Did you find out anything?
I'm on Raven 2.2.2.0 should I try to downgrade or upgrade to latest ? *(And try whatever password that I remember) I don't think this would make a difference.
Let me know. thanks

TronBlack commented 3 years ago

Try downgrading first and see if it works.

You will not be able to sync to the end, but then you'll know if the password was working on an older version.

Tron

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 3:06 PM cupidchild @.***> wrote:

Did you find out anything? I'm on Raven 2.2.2.0 should I try to downgrade or upgrade to latest ? *(And try whatever password that I remember) I don't think this would make a difference. Let me know. thanks

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cupidchild commented 3 years ago

okay thx.. will try it on v0.15.99.0 and then move onto v2.0.1

cupidchild commented 3 years ago

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v.0.15.99.0 failed to open. Nothing on debug.log will try 2.0.1

cupidchild commented 3 years ago

v2.0.1 gave some interesting error:

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cupidchild commented 3 years ago

v2.0.1 after the warning gave fatal error. Moving to v2.0.2

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jeroz1 commented 3 years ago

This reads as if the wallet got corrupted along the way somewhere and recovery on it failed. You wouldn't be the first one. Do you have the original backup of the file somewhere?

cupidchild commented 3 years ago

when I open it up on v2.2.2.0 it opens up fine without any error. (*but not completely sure wallet.dat file is corrupt or not) I was trying to open it with previous version to see if I can unlock using the password that I know.

jeroz1 commented 3 years ago

Does your passphrase work on 0.15.99? You can test the passphrase by unlocking your wallet in the debug console. You do not have to be all synced up to check this.

To unlock: help > debug window > console, and type: walletpassphrase YOURPASSPHRASEHERE 600 This will unlock your wallet.dat file for 600 seconds.

If your passphrase was correct, the wallet will respond with "null". If that is the case, your wallet.dat file should work just fine when using the latest Ravencoin version. If the passphrase was incorrect, it will respond with an error. In that case either the passphrase is not correct. (I am unsure how the wallet would behave if the wallet.dat file is actually from a different bitcoin derived blockchain project, if that may be the case).

If you are able to unlock your wallet.dat file but it still doesn't work with newer versions for some reason, you can also dump your wallet to a text file to get access to your private keys. If you want to do so, you can do that in the same console after you unlocked your wallet, by typing: dumpwallet "wallet.txt" The console should respond where it saved the this text file. By default it should be in the same folder as where your wallet.dat file is stored.

RavencoinFoundationTron commented 3 years ago

I'm meeting with someone with a similar issue this afternoon. I'll report back.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 9:22 AM jeroz1 @.***> wrote:

Does your passphrase work on 0.15.99? You can test the passphrase by unlocking your wallet in the debug console. You do not have to be all synced up to check this.

To unlock: help > debug window > console, and type: walletpassphrase YOURPASSPHRASEHERE 600 This will unlock your wallet.dat file for 600 seconds.

If your passphrase was correct, the wallet will respond with "null". If that is the case, your wallet.dat file should work just fine when using the latest Ravencoin version. If the passphrase was incorrect, it will respond with an error. In that case either the passphrase is not correct. (I am unsure how the wallet would behave if the wallet.dat file is actually from a different bitcoin derived blockchain project, if that may be the case).

If you are able to unlock your wallet.dat file but it still doesn't work with newer versions for some reason, you can also dump your wallet to a text file to get access to your private keys. If you want to do so, you can do that in the same console after you unlocked your wallet, by typing: dumpwallet "wallet.txt" The console should respond where it saved the this text file. By default it should be in the same folder as where your wallet.dat file is stored.

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cupidchild commented 3 years ago

yeah, this is same as if I were to send RVN to another address and it askes for the password. I did try cli via the debug window and of course the password didn't work. :(

cupidchild commented 3 years ago

I noticed something on the right side of the Raven core -wallet..
This is after block time has all synced up to date.

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cupidchild commented 3 years ago

on another pc, I just ran latest Raven Core Wallet version 5.7.1 and synced up and no issue nor error message...
I see my coins qty. but of course just can't send them anywhere. lol image

TronBlack commented 3 years ago

Update. I did meet with a user that was unable to unlock their wallet.dat. We installed an older version and tried again and it did not work so it is more likely the password was entered incorrectly originally. At this point, there isn't enough evidence to suggest that code changes are preventing original passwords from unlocking wallet.dat files. Please continue to report any issues that might suggest otherwise. This will be left open for now.

hans-schmidt commented 3 years ago

Another month has passed since Tron's update with no information indicating that the fault is in the code. Therefore, I am closing this issue. Please open a new issue if new relevant information becomes available.