#11
03-07-2015, 11:00 PM
Are there any tried and true type wallets to help avoid this?
(03-07-2015, 11:41 AM)Tsquared Wrote: The lesson here, to check the functionality of a wallet before depending on it to function properly, is a good message for everyone, regardless of what actually happened with your situation.
That said, I have two suggestions:
You said that the brute force attempts tried different variations on the characters in your passphrase. Did you try variations in your spaces? Two spaces instead of one or no spaces at all? I'd try this randomly between the words in the passphrase.
More obscure possibly could be this: I deal with text files quite a bit in my job. I am aware that the hexadecimal encoding of "ENTER" is different between ASCII and EBCDIC. This causes problems for us sometimes when someone creates a text file on a mainframe machine because the "end of line" representation on a main frame (EBCDIC) has a hex value of 0A (Line Feed) but most modern systems represent the end of line as 0A0D (Carriage Return, Line Feed).
Maybe this is all BS, but you mention a non-standard keyboard, so I'm wondering if it's possible that you hit Enter after putting in your passphrase, and it added an invisible character, a Line Feed (hex 0A) to the end of the passphrase.
This is really a long shot, but I think you can type a LF only (instead of CRLF) on a modern keyboard as alt+10 (http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/ascii-control-characters/line-feed-ascii-code-10.html) so maybe try it by entering the passphrase then alt+10, then hit the regular Enter key or Okay button or whatever and see what happens.
TT
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