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Author Topic: [HELP] Restore 2fa from master_private_key or find seed  (Read 321 times)
Z3us (OP)
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March 29, 2017, 06:35:45 AM
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Hi to all,
I have a huge problem. I lost my 24 words seed of a 2fa wallet and after a full wipe of my phone I lost Google Authenticator code too and I cannot backup it.
I tried to retrieve the seed from the wallet file but there is only 'seed_version:11', there isn't the encrypted seed. I tried recovering using the console command wallet.get_seed(), I even tried to move the wallet file to Debian and use the 'electrum getseed' command without result. I'm quite sure the wallet file is not corrupted because I can access it.
After googling I found that I could be able to restore a 2fa wallet by the master_private_key. I tried it (the key was encoded, so I decrypted it from the console) but when I try to restore a 2fa Electrum asks me only for the seed.
If anyone has any suggestion I would be really grateful.


P.S. If this post is in the wrong section, feel free to move it (I wrote it here because most of the help questions I found are in this section)
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March 29, 2017, 01:48:27 PM
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2FA wallets utilize a multisig wallet in order to achieve the 2FA with a 3rd party providing the 2FA verification/signing.

Unfortunately, if you lost access to the 2FA code, the only way to restore the wallet is with the seed. You won't be able to restore from a master_private_key as you will only have 1 of the 2 needed private keys for sending coins.

You don't have a recent phone backup that you could possibly extract the 2FA code from, do you? I'd recommend looking into Authy in the future to replace Google Auth. Authy handles backups much better and can store encrypted backups in the cloud as well if desired.
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