WalletPaperbackup
PaperBack Encrypted Paper Backup of your Wallet
Basics
A program called PaperBack[2] allows a user to encrypt and print a paper copy of a file, to restore the file you scan or provide a image of the printed paper and it decodes the file
How to use with you Wallet
- Download PaperBack from the location provided before
- Open PaperBack
- Open Options and select the options you wish to have (For more info, read the page provided above)
- Drag and drop the file (wallet.dat) into the window for printing
- File -> Save to bitmap, It will ask you what file to encode, and then where to save the bitmap
Restoring your Wallet
- Scan or provide the bitmap of the backup
- Wait for processing
- Save wallet.dat
Example
Here is the first Image: Encoded Image
Its a empty wallet.dat with Encryption on (AES-256), standard options past that
Here is the damaged copy, Opened in GIMP saved as a JPEG at 4% Compression, then converted back into a Bitmap: Damaged Re-Encoded Image
ECC had to correct 56bytes of bad data.. once decoded the md5 hashes where the same!
Here is a screenshot asking for the password (The password is "bitcoin")
Screen Shot