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Main => Technical Support => Topic started by: xeroc on September 15, 2015, 01:22:32 pm

Title: How to recover your brainkey from the encrypted backup and the passphrase
Post by: xeroc on September 15, 2015, 01:22:32 pm

what you need to do ...
1) open wallet.bitshares.org in a browser that has a javascript console ... i.e. firefox
2) open the javascript console
3) run:

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aes_root = bts.ecc.Aes.fromSecret("PASSPHRASE")
aes_root.decryptHex('ENCRYPTED-BRAINKEY')
The ENCRYPTED-BRAINKEY is a hex string that you can extract from your backup file (which is in JSON format). It is located below

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"key": "encrypted_brainkey", as value

This will give you the decrypted brainwallet in hex ..
use any tool to convert the hex into string ..
e.g. brainwalletX.github.io