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Issue decrypting wallet seed #269

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That-Guy42 opened this issue Sep 4, 2021 · 1 comment
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Issue decrypting wallet seed #269

That-Guy42 opened this issue Sep 4, 2021 · 1 comment

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@That-Guy42
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I was trying to use "./bin/pktwallet --create" to recover my wallet as my passphrase I set up got botched because I entered it using TeamViewer to a virtual machine on my private server over my phone. I spun up a new virtual machine to install pktd and recover the wallet but when entering my wallet seed and then enter the same password I just entered as the passphrase it says "Decrypting your seed..." and then ends up giving me the error

The seed did not decrypt properly, please try again.

It then prompts me again for the wallet password. Is there a bug here where the passphrase I enter at the beginning of the create process doesn't work to store it properly or is the password it requires actually the original passphrase I used when setting up the wallet the first time?

@Frank-Buss
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Unlike some other blockchains, the password is used to additionally encrypt the seed. The message you see is generated here:

fmt.Println("The seed did not decrypt properly, please try again.")

So you need to enter the original seed, and the password, which is probably different from the seed.

Maybe you can reproduce the setup with TeamViewer, so that the same characters for the password are altered in the same way?

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