Bitcoin Forum
July 09, 2024, 04:39:57 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: How to transfer blockchain wallet backup to other client?  (Read 395 times)
Answerme2 (OP)
Member
**
Offline Offline

Activity: 108
Merit: 10


View Profile
March 29, 2016, 08:00:12 PM
 #1

Say i have blockchain.info wallet X and i only have one address in it.Now i took a backup of this wallet.Now how can i transfer this wallet(address+private keys) to other wallet(say any wallet like electrum,multibit,mycellium)
I know i can always send the bitcoins to the address created by other wallets but in case blockchain.info goes down or shuts down or whatever happens and in that case i need to access my bitcoins then how can i do so?
Do blockchain.info backups (AES Encypted) can only be recovered at blockchain.info?
I know i can export the private key of address in blockchain.info wallet but it's not safe.I want the encypted backup that i take to be restored at other clients in case of emergencies.Is that possible?

achow101
Staff
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 3444
Merit: 6748


Just writing some code


View Profile WWW
March 29, 2016, 08:10:15 PM
 #2

Say i have blockchain.info wallet X and i only have one address in it.Now i took a backup of this wallet.Now how can i transfer this wallet(address+private keys) to other wallet(say any wallet like electrum,multibit,mycellium)
I know i can always send the bitcoins to the address created by other wallets but in case blockchain.info goes down or shuts down or whatever happens and in that case i need to access my bitcoins then how can i do so?
Do blockchain.info backups (AES Encypted) can only be recovered at blockchain.info?
I know i can export the private key of address in blockchain.info wallet but it's not safe.I want the encypted backup that i take to be restored at other clients in case of emergencies.Is that possible?
You would need to decrypt the keys. The encrypted keys can probably only be decrypted at blockchain.info but, because their software is open source, it should be fairly trivial for someone to modify the code to decrypt your private keys.

unholycactus
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1078
Merit: 1024



View Profile WWW
March 29, 2016, 08:39:32 PM
 #3

I wouldn't use blockchain.info in the first place if safety is your concern.
Anyways, you could always export the unencrypted private key and then encrypt it yourself with whatever you want.
Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!