Questions tagged [keystore]
the storage of your private keys for the ethereum clients
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Used Goerli instead of mainnet launchpad
i accidentally used the goerli.launchpad webpage instead of mainlaunchpad page to generate keys and stake. it looks like the validator was still created. does it make a difference if the keys were ...
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Wallets, keys and keystores
I have a very basic question regarding wallets to which I haven't found a clear explanation online. From what I understand, a wallet (in its most basic form) is a piece of software that holds and/or ...
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Creating a wallet and account
I am using nethereum, and am creating an account. But I believe it is better to create the wallet first. I then save the account to a keystore:
Wallet wallet = new Wallet(Wordlist.English, WordCount....
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Nethereum Keystore and Wallets
I am using Nethereum KeyStore to store privateKeys. It looks like in order to save private keys for the wallet, you will need the account addresses and index ahead of time. What is the index referring ...
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retrieve private key from v4 keystore with password
I've got a keystore file from when I staked 2 years ago. I have the password and the keystore tests as valid, but I'm trying to get the privatekey/mnemonic back out of it. All the material I see for ...
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How to create a wallet for ETH?
I'm a bit confused on the process now of creating wallets in the Ethereum ecosystem.
At this time I'm creating an application that allows users to create their own wallets but I'm very confused on the ...
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How can I store my private key safely in browser? How do different wallet website store the private key?
I am building a web app, where I need user private key to be stored safely in the browser and I want to do something with that private key in my React component.
How can I store it safely? Should I ...
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How to store private key on a VPS in a secure manner?
I have a service which will interract with my smart contract which will include money transfer. For this reason, a private key of the owner or deployer of a smart contract will have to be store on a ...
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Lost my Private key but ı have keystore
I have mew v2 json file. I want to convert this file to v3 utc via geth but I am getting an error, what should I do? i get the same error on windows 10 and linux (kali and ubuntu)
Geth Error:
Fatal: ...
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I have only my keystore file
I have a myetherwallet. I have my keystore file but I lost my password? Is there any solution to recover my assets?
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What does the format of of the filename of keystore generated by the eth2.0-deposit-cli mean?
When I eth2.0 deposit client, it generates the keystore file with a filename in a peculiar format. For example:
keystore-m_12381_3600_1_0_0-1646556486.json
What exactly does this file name format ...
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I can't import my Geth account, where do I get the 64 hex character while my UTC file shows only the mac I've loaded and it said too short
please give a solution. I can't Import my geth account.
It said:
C:\Windows\system32>geth account import --datadir value 092426c0333f315bd569f279d*****
Fatal: Failed to load the private key: key ...
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Restore from ethereum keystore file results in an unusable private key
I have a keystore file from an old ellipal wallet with some eth with it.
The corresponding password is correct (I can use it to display the private key and keystore in it) and I can also run the ...
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What is the difference between key types and value types in solidity? and how do you differentiate the two?
So I've been learning solidity for the past month through an online course. The bad thing is there are some basic things I just cant get the hang on like in Mapping the difference between keys and ...
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Is there a design pattern in order to protect private keys in a Multi SigWallet?
I've developed a MultiSig Wallet for my company. For timing reason i've used as "code base" the Ethereum Multi Sig Smart Contract by BitGo (here the link of the repository: https://github....
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What Ethereum / Geth folders can I safely delete?
I have been in crypto for a few years and over time, changed computer several times, transferring entire C drive content every time.
My new computer has a smaller C partition and I'm trying to free ...
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Fragmented UTC file
I recovered my deleted UTC keystore file from 2018 using Recovery Software. The File is fragmented. It looks like this:
Is there any way i can defragmentate the file?
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What is the safest way to generate an ethereum wallet for cold storage?
I am currently making a DIY cold storage using a desktop computer. I cannot find any good desktop wallet for ethereum cold storage. Something like electrum for BTC.
So, I can only found these 3 ways ...
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How to check whether the keystore file has been tampered？
The format of the keystore is shown below. In the project, there is a requirement to save the keystore file from the front end to the back end. How can the back end check whether the keystore file has ...
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Recovering of Parity 1.7.8 wallet - integrating to Open Ethereum
I last used Parity in 2018 - having a wallet with different coins.
As I did a Windows Inplace-Upgrade I saved my C: drive and hoped at that time, that this should be enough to backup my account and ...
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Please help to detect ETHEREUM JSON key file
Time: 2014 year.
I have next key:
{"public_key":"02f6197ef15d989898b11c6c0axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "data":"...
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Recovering private key from keystore file
Recently I came across my old keystore file from the original Ethereum Wallet that I used back in 2017. Unfortunately I cannot find the private key or password for that wallet anymore, big problem of ...
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Can the v2 keystore json file for Ethereum wallet be converted to v3
If someone has an Ethereum ICO keystore Json file like this pics, is it possible to convert it to the v3?
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How to get the private key from the keystore file
The book Mastering Ethereum explains the keystore file in geth as follows:
"The private key in the JSON file is not directly encrypted by the password. On the contrary, the password will be ...
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Deriving a Bitcoin Address from Ethereum Private Key
There have been many answers about how to derive an Ethereum Address from a Bitcoin private key, but a curious problem has led me to ask how one would do the reverse. I'm sure it's possible because ...
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i have wallet's keystore file and private key. how can i find mnemonic words [duplicate]
I have keystore file and private key of my wallet. i need this wallet's mnemonic words.
How can i find mnemonic phrase from this json file and private key? I tried mycrypto and mew but i couldnt find ...
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Ethereum JSON keystore file leaked - security?
If the JSON keystore file has been leaked but the password has not, can the attacker with the keystore file do anything?
Assume the password is 20 or more characters long and not used in any other ...
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keystore path in geth command does not work
I've lunched Geth server and want to store data and keystores in a non-default directory. I've used this command to run Geth:
geth --datadir /etc/dir/ --keystore /etc/dir/keystore/
But when I run ...
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How to Locate Private Key/JSON file of Account Created in Geth terminal
Software: Ubuntu on Virtual Box
I created test account in geth terminal (rinkeby network), i.e., but I am not finding keystore, or json file in
home\rinkeby\keystore
Please assist
can someone ...
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Confusion due to shared keystore of Mist and Ethereum Wallet
I wasn't aware of the fact that Mist and Ethereum Wallet would use the same Geth and keys in the background and as a result made a big mistake to operate them at the same time...
So now there's the ...
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How get private key or password from my keystore [duplicate]
I had wallet from 2016, but i'm forget password login by keystore.
Current i just had keystore, how i can get private key or password keystore?
Thank so much
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Find keyfile of an account
I have several accounts in my Geth wallet. I need to locate the keystore file of a given account but there doesn't seem to be any connection between the keystore file names and the accounts. How do I ...
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I did not dowload the keystore when I created my etherwallet account
Last year I created a account in my etherwallet, when it finished, i just saved the address of wallet and password,did not save keystore file also private key. Now I access in my etherwallet, they ...
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aes-128-ctr is not available
While trying to extract key from keystore file using password, using the library keythereum, I'm getting the error:
aes-128-ctr is not available
I'm using web3 version ^0.19.1.
Ref: https://github....
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How can I get a mnemonic phrase from a private key?
I have a private key for my wallet and also a keystore for it. I want to use it in MEWConnect. Is there a way to get a mnemonic phrase from a private key?
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How to create batch of accounts by using geth?
To create on account&keystore using:
geth --datadir node1/ account new
How to create 100 account&keystore in one time?
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Lost my Seed Words for MetaMask
I am very shocked. After a crash on my computer, I lost my Seed Words file to access my MetaMask account. However, I found a Keystore file (UTC or json file), but when I import it into MetaMask I can ...
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Where does metamask store the wallet seed? (file path)
I have a Windows installation that cannot be booted anymore.
I'd like to copy the file containing the Metamask wallet seed to another machine and have that Metamask installation use it.
The same ...
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How do the other nodes know which particular node has the account used in the transaction?
A brief about my setup. I am using a private Ethereum network with 3 nodes.
I have made all the nodes as peers of each other by using:
admin.addPeer("enode:1234abcd..")
When mining takes place, all ...
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How to decrypt Keystore ethereum with my password [duplicate]
I'm used ./geth command line for create address with command
./geth account new
and put password.
and after that system create keystore file.
how to decrypt keystore file with my password for get ...
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Can I add my own fields to JSON files in the keystore directory?
I need to add a few fields to JSON v3 wallet file, can I do it ? What is Ethereum's policy on this?
For example, to add account name I would do something like this:
{
"address": "...
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Where does parity look when trying to import geth keystore files
I'm in the directory for parity keystore files, namely, ~/.local/share/io.parity.ethereum/keys/
and I've run:
parity --import-geth-keys
But I get an error saying:
Failed to find geth keys ...
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Geth account list is blank and also ethereum keystore value is blank
I am new to ethereum block-chain. I created a smart contract. I want to deploy it on test network(Rinkeby) with ethereum node(geth).I install geth on system.And connect with Rinkeby test network. ...
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How to access an account if node is down
Consider a following scenario for a multi node private blockchain network:
If one node is down, how can I access accounts created on that node from another node without having private key of the ...
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Revoking public keys
I am starting to play around with Ethereum and smart contracts.
I was wondering is there is a way in Eth to revoke or kill of a public key you have given out?
If so, will the other party be ...
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How to add account in rinkeby test network?
I have a problem on creating a wallet account.
I have downloaded mist.
I have downloaded ethereum wallet.
I have no idea on anything of this. I am new to this.
I have choosen Develop->Network->...
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how to decrypt aes 128 keystore offline with password [duplicate]
i want to create dapp like cold wallet on which i can access my sign transaction with private key but in order to get private key for each time i need offline code or script to decrypt my keystore ...
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Extract the private and public key from the UTC file [duplicate]
When I create a new account using Geth, it creates a UTC file corresponding to the account. All I know is that the UTC file consists of an encrypted private key.
How can I decrypt this? How can I ...
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Is it safe to use web3 with electron/angular?
I am building an electron or angular (not sure yet) application integrated with web3. I will be using a parity node and infura as a fallback node to communicate with the blockchain. I will be ...
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Could my private key could be reconstructed from just the ciphertext, salt and my password
Lets assume hypothetically that I have these all written down on paper somewhere. In comparison to the keystore, which I consider a JSON file that's too long, can I theoretically disregard all other ...
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