Importing password protected key

[ajareselde]

hiya,

how can i import password protected key into electrum ?!

Thought it would recognize it, i enter password, and done ...


cheers

[pooya87]

if you want to import a key (not sweep), first you should create a new wallet without seed.

sadly Electrum does not have a way of decrypting an ecrypted private key in its import window as far as i know. you will have to decrypt it first and then import it in your Electrum wallet.
you can use a trusted tool like https://www.bitaddress.org to decrypt BIP38 encrypted private keys which is the most common way of encryption used. there are other tools for AES256-CBC encryption which is also common which you can use but i don't have any tools to suggest.

here is something you can test with:
BIP38 encrypted:

Code:

6PYSjZBVTLUZj9vkLFg7bzz3taZ6vGA4ma1AWBCeXfuVaLLq6hsty1QyZ4

password:

Code:

123

private key:

Code:

compressed: L1GmmDzNMXb3ErekXcX5v2eLFP29SGWKZccT4hDyJqEiKa13cVHT
uncompressed: 5JjYSRhBjG5zbrmMHTAzJTCdXu7bzP6HSWpTJ9fHPAa1kimHPou