Thank you so much for all your responses. :-)

I was just searching for everything starting with 01 01 04 20, because right after that starts a private key in the wallet file. After that i used bitcointools to convert them into WIF-format and imported them with the importwallet command from the debug console. It worked for unencrypted wallets i created for testing purposes so fingers crossed.

Iam gonna try the decrypt.cpp. Thank you for the hint

I deleted the wallet.dat by accident. I replaced the wallet.dat while bitcoin core was still running which caused an error and then the wallet.dat was gone.

I then wrote a small programm which scans the harddisk on a low level for finding even deleted private keys. So right now iam having my passphrase and the keys (in hex and in wif format) or strings similar to private keys.

I dont know if those informations are still valid but from what i read are just the keys in the wallet encrypted and not the full wallet.

I am just using bitcoin core.

Hey Guys,

i have lost my wallet file but i have been able to recover the private keys. Problem is that they are encrypted with a passphrase. I know the passphrase but how can i now decrypt them to import them into a new wallet?

thanks vlamer,

just solved it myself under mac os

Hey vlamer,

having the same probleme here. How did you actually solve it?