pywallet question

[troublepk]

so i found an old wallet.dat file of mine. ran it through pywallet and the output says"The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is use"
what does that mean?

[takuma sato]

so i found an old wallet.dat file of mine. ran it through pywallet and the output says"The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is use"
what does that mean?

I never used pywallet and that is a quite confusing sentence. How could it be encrypted without a password? If something is encrypted, it should require something to decrypt it, which as far as I know is always a password, or you can call it whatever you want, what I mean is it requires an input.

This is what I was able to find, so check it out:

This means you ran pywallet without the --password option.  It does not mean the wallet has an empty passphrase.

Go on that thread and probably there is an answer somewhere.

[mcdouglasx]

so i found an old wallet.dat file of mine. ran it through pywallet and the output says"The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is use"
what does that mean?

are encrypted, but you are not entering the passphrase.

Code:

python pywallet.py --dumpwallet --wallet=/path2your/wallet.dat --passphrase="you_passphrase"

[nc50lc]

and the output says "The wallet is encrypted but no passphrase is used"
what does that mean?

Isn't that self-explanatory already?
Although it successfully dumped the data contained in the wallet, you'll notice that the private keys in the output are still encrypted.
Each labeled with "encrypted_privkey".

In the instance when you include --passphrase= with the correct passphrase, additional lines with "sec" will be available which is the decrypted private keys in WIF (Wallet Import Format).

Additionally, if you want to output it in a .txt file instead of displaying in the command line, add: > "yourfilename.txt" at the end of the command. (space before and after ">")