Re: [openssl-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key

2018-01-18 Thread Chris B
string? Alternately, is there a process for taking an encrypted string, and "backing in" to the details of how it was created? (ie what algorithm, etc?) Thanks, Chris On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Chris B wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > >Option #1 from the possibilities you m

Re: [openssl-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key

2018-01-15 Thread Chris B
Hi Daniel, >Option #1 from the possibilities you mentioned below seems to be the most logical to me. Thank you, that's very helpful. Thanks, Chris On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Sands, Daniel wrote: > On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 18:26 -0500, Chris B wrote: > > Hi Matt, > &

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key

2018-01-14 Thread Chris B
s, Chris On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Matt Caswell wrote: > > > On 14/01/18 15:26, Chris B wrote: > > I'm trying to help someone recover his password for an older format > > ethereum encrypted private key (EPK). My plan has been to use his best > > guess a

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key

2018-01-14 Thread Chris B
11:21 AM, Viktor Dukhovni < openssl-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote: > > > > On Jan 14, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Chris B > wrote: > > > > I'm trying to help someone recover his password for an older format > ethereum encrypted private key (EPK). My plan has

Re: [openssl-users] OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key

2018-01-14 Thread Chris B
Hi Rich, Thank you very much for the reply. I get the same error message using -aes256 as -aes-256-cbc /usr/bin/openssl enc -d -aes256 -a -in enc_private_key.txt -out recovered.key -pass pass:TheBig7ebowski bad decrypt 140383648536480:error:0606506D:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_

[openssl-users] OpenSSL error message when decrypting Ethereum encrypted private key

2018-01-14 Thread Chris B
I'm trying to help someone recover his password for an older format ethereum encrypted private key (EPK). My plan has been to use his best guess at the password to brute force the actual password. The EPK is a 132 character string, and it looks something like this: U2FsdGV0X185M9YAa/27pmEvFzC5pqLI