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Title: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: cody500555 on October 17, 2017, 09:46:12 AM
Hey I found a key on an old flashdrive of mine labeled crypto, but I for the life of me can not remember what it was for. It's nine digits, all numbers, and in the format

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I'd greatly appreciate any help thanks guys!


Title: Re: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: AdolfinWolf on October 17, 2017, 03:02:04 PM
Hey I found a key on an old flashdrive of mine labeled crypto, but I for the life of me can not remember what it was for. It's nine digits, all numbers, and in the format

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I'd greatly appreciate any help thanks guys!

That doesn't seem to be any kind of private key/ public key, nor a seed.

My guess is that that key is from some kind of online wallet?

Could be that private keys were different years ago, but i'm not so sure of that.



You should move your thread to -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0 Technial Support..
People there might know more then i do.


Title: Re: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: LeonidSrt on October 17, 2017, 03:09:12 PM
Well, that could be a mind wallet phrase, for example if you replace all numbers by words (i.e. "one" instead of "1" etc). But are you sure that this "crypto" is really connected to cryptocurrency?


Title: Re: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: BitMaxz on October 18, 2017, 12:08:44 AM
I think its impossible to get a  9 digit as private keys and i think you are holding only encrypted code you need to find a way tools that can decrypte that can help.. Or maybe you are using some encoder before and you just didn't remember it yet?
You can try this link and decode your 9 digit and maybe you can find here the solution https://codebeautify.org/base64-decode
You may also try also the other tools there to decode or decrypt your 9 digit and maybe you can remember that you just encode your private keys or seeds that turn into 9 digit..


Title: Re: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: cody500555 on October 18, 2017, 12:37:12 AM
Hey I found a key on an old flashdrive of mine labeled crypto, but I for the life of me can not remember what it was for. It's nine digits, all numbers, and in the format

###
###
###

I'd greatly appreciate any help thanks guys!

That doesn't seem to be any kind of private key/ public key, nor a seed.

My guess is that that key is from some kind of online wallet?

Could be that private keys were different years ago, but i'm not so sure of that.



You should move your thread to -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0 Technial Support..
People there might know more then i do.

Thanks for the link, yeah I know it's not a priv key for any coins standalone wallet but I figured it was for some kind of online one. However I may have placed this in the wrong folder by mistake aswell but I thought I'd ask around and see what I hear to be safe


Title: Re: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: cody500555 on October 18, 2017, 12:43:04 AM
I think its impossible to get a  9 digit as private keys and i think you are holding only encrypted code you need to find a way tools that can decrypte that can help.. Or maybe you are using some encoder before and you just didn't remember it yet?
You can try this link and decode your 9 digit and maybe you can find here the solution https://codebeautify.org/base64-decode
You may also try also the other tools there to decode or decrypt your 9 digit and maybe you can remember that you just encode your private keys or seeds that turn into 9 digit..
Well, that could be a mind wallet phrase, for example if you replace all numbers by words (i.e. "one" instead of "1" etc). But are you sure that this "crypto" is really connected to cryptocurrency?


I don't think I've ever heard of brain wallet, nor do I usually encode. I'm fairly certain it's nothing, but I'm going to throw a thread up in the technical forum to be safe. Absolutely nothing is coming to mind for me for it so if anything I can't imagine it's more then dust.


Title: Re: Need help identifying crypto secret key
Post by: bob123 on October 18, 2017, 06:14:51 PM
3x3 numbers have a coding power of 10^9 (= 10.000.000.000).
I dont think this is related to a private key/seed anyhow.
Any android mobile could bruteforce those "keys" in a very small time.
Maybe its just a reminder for a password or anything? or for a word? each number = letter in alphabet?