Recover wallet from multibithd.zip.aes backup

HCP

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Quote from: Gvest on February 05, 2018, 12:25:38 PM

If case I remember the seed - is it worth continuing to use Multibit HD? Is it a safe client for the wallet? Or use Electrum?

No, MultiBit HD is no longer supported or updated... And has a lot of bugs. It also has a very low "max" fee and definitely doesn't support SegWit. You should migrate to a different wallet.

Read more here: http://multibit.org/blog/2017/07/26/multibit-shutdown.html

Gvest

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If case I remember the seed - is it worth continuing to use Multibit HD? Is it a safe client for the wallet? Or use Electrum?

HCP

legendary

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Quote from: Gvest on February 01, 2018, 04:07:03 PM

If think logically. But after all, when I start Multibit and enter the password of the wallet - the addresses of my wallets are restored from these files, and not from the seed. This means that to work with the koshelkom it is enough to have a private key file and a password for decryption. Am I right to argue?

Am I right in thinking that "koshelkom" = "wallet"? Huh

Unfortunately, (as per: https://multibit.org/help/hd0.3/backups.html), the way MultiBit HD encrypts the ZIP backups (ie. MultiBit.zip.aes), is that it uses the 12 word seed as a password, NOT your wallet password. It is only your actual wallet file or the "rolling" backsups (ie. mbhd.wallet.aes) that are encrypted using your wallet password.

In summary:

xxxx.zip.aes = encrypted using 12 words
xxxx.wallet.aes = encrypted using wallet password

Gvest

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Quote from: HCP on February 01, 2018, 01:43:26 AM

Unless you have an actual "mbhd.wallet.aes" file... or the 12 word seed, your chances of recovering anything from a MultiBit HD "backup" are pretty much nil.If all you have are the .zip.aes files, then as per above, you will not be able to decrypt this file without 12 word seed.

If think logically. But after all, when I start Multibit and enter the password of the wallet - the addresses of my wallets are restored from these files, and not from the seed. This means that to work with the wallet it is enough to have a private key file and a password for decryption. Am I right to argue?

HCP

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Unless you have an actual "mbhd.wallet.aes" file... or the 12 word seed, your chances of recovering anything from a MultiBit HD "backup" are pretty much nil.

If all you have are the .zip.aes files, then as per above, you will not be able to decrypt this file without 12 word seed.

Gvest

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I have the same problem. How do I recover my wallet?

HCP

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The MultiBit HD wallet backup files are encrypted with AES256... Sadly the password used in this encryption process is actually the 12 wallet words... NOT your wallet password.

Thus, without the wallet words you cannot recover using the MultiBit.zip.aes file Undecided

Refer to the technical details here: https://multibit.org/help/hd0.3/backups.html

crypto_ripper14

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Hi all,

I have a multibitHD wallet backup file and was wondering if there is anyway to restore my wallet from this? I think I knwo the password but I don't knwo the wallet words and don't have a wallet file.

I don't think I have much BTC in there, maybe 0.1/2 which is why I have nto bothered until now. The multibit HD software was on an old HDD which is corrupted now.

Is there any way to get recover my wallet from this backup file?

Many thanks for your help:)

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