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gurnec / btcrecover

An open source Bitcoin wallet password and seed recovery tool designed for the case where you already know most of your password/seed, but need assistance in trying different possible combinations.
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not clear how btcrecover supports My Ether Wallet #417

Open 0x4c4f4c opened 3 years ago

0x4c4f4c commented 3 years ago

Dear Gurnec,

I use and used btcrecover with pleasure for Bitcoin Wallet Recovery (for successful recoveries I donated). However, recently I tried to recover an MEW wallet with the software and I do not see how MEW is supported. Simply using the MEW wallet does not work, nor did I see a command to specify the wallet type (unless you do seed recovery). So my question is and how MEW wallets are supported and if so what the inputs look like. Now I tie together btcrecover (generating password lists), with hash-cat, which seams to be sub-optimal.

Kind regards,

0x4c4f4c

3rdIteration commented 3 years ago

Ethereum keystore files are not supported at all, there is an open issue to add support in my updated fork here: https://github.com/3rdIteration/btcrecover/issues/35

Recovery of mnemonic based Eth wallets works fine though.