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Recover deleted private keys from a Ubuntu encrypted usb stick. Open to bounty.
132 sats \ 4 comments \ @anon 16 Sep bitdevs
Hi stackers,
Time lightens even the heaviest of hearts, unfortunately its black when it should be orange lol. I revisit the hope that one day I might be able to recover accidentally deleted private keys from an old USB stick, which I deleted in 2017, here are the specs, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
  1. Lexar 16gb USB stick, encrypted using Ubuntu 18.
  2. I had written new information to the disk post deletion of private keys, above 4gb of data, before I realized what I had done and stopped.
  3. Brought it to data recovery specialist but none of the files that were recoverable were related to the private keys.
  4. I have not touched it really since trying to recover in 2019, but this might be the last ditch effort.
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1000 sats \ 2 replies \ @clarity 16 Sep
plug it in and try the bash script in this, from any linux/unix terminal:
https://chatgpt.com/share/66e794b2-7878-8010-a31a-304b9f6319aa
if you know how to mount it and find the usb stick in your filesystem, you can narrow down the search by changing the SEARCH_DIR="/path/to/your/mounted/usb"
I'll keep thinking on this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @dollarparity 16 Sep
The regex queries you want are in the Bitcoin tests GitHub repo
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @clarity 16 Sep
to run it, use:
chmod +x search.sh ./search.sh
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitalion 16 Sep
If the memory was encrypted I doubt very much that you will achieve anything since as you say you overwrote the memory.
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