Anyone Remember Know About Blob Vault?

[italiandude]

Hello Everyone, I started with ripple in 2013. Life got busy yada yada. Didn't use the email I had on file with ripple so didn't know about migration. I know my username, my ripple address, but not my password or secret key. Now I did find a 496 character count text file on my old computer I named Ripple Wallet. From researching on the web it appears it might be from something that use to exist for Ripple called Blob Vault? Can anyone confirm? My question is can this 496 characters that I guess contains my secret key? be decrypted? I'd appreciate any help on this and if someone thinks they could fairly easily solve this for me I'd be willing to pay some for the help/walk me through on some sort of messenger. 

Edited May 23, 2017 by italiandude

[GreyAndroidGravy]

I don't know anything about the Blob Vault, but if it's from before the migration you could try loading that wallet in the Ripple Desktop Client.  Without your password though... I'm not sure how much luck you'll have.  Sorry!!

[xebit]

https://github.com/ripple/ripple-blobvault

http://docs.blobvaultv1.apiary.io/#

Edited May 23, 2017 by xebit

[Eik]

7 hours ago, italiandude said:

Hello Everyone, I started with ripple in 2013. Life got busy yada yada. Didn't use the email I had on file with ripple so didn't know about migration. I know my username, my ripple address, but not my password or secret key. Now I did find a 496 character count text file on my old computer I named Ripple Wallet. From researching on the web it appears it might be from something that use to exist for Ripple called Blob Vault? Can anyone confirm? My question is can this 496 characters that I guess contains my secret key? be decrypted? I'd appreciate any help on this and if someone thinks they could fairly easily solve this for me I'd be willing to pay some for the help/walk me through on some sort of messenger. 

Does the file end with a '=' character?

It is likely your encrypted blobvault. It then indeed contains your secret key.

You do need a username AND a password to decrypt it though.

[italiandude]

Thanks guys, not even sure how to run Blob Vault after downloading it. @Eik It does end with an = sign so thank you for likely at least solving that mystery for me. 

[Eik]

Using the Ripple Desktop wallet you can open the blobvault, then it asks to decrypt it using username and password.

[italiandude]

Some more questions if anyone knows.I believe I have my username correct because I have an old email from Ripple asking me to verify my account and the link is https://www.rippletrade.com/#/register/activate/WhatIBelieveMyUsernameHere/then a string of random letters and numbers. Would "WhatIBelieveMyUsernmaeHere" indeed be my username? Also does anyone know what the parameters were for creating a password back in 2013. Did have to include uppercase and lowercase etc. 

[Mercury]

Did you KYC with Ripple?

If so there may be some solutions that can be found in this post:

Be sure to read the PDF- there is links to RIpple and Gatehub services that may be of use

[bowler99]

I also have one of these but ripple desktop wallet cannot open it, and I am not sure its a useful file or not

[Sukrim]

If you don't know your password any more, it will be hard to decrypt this...

[italiandude]

@Mercury Thanks for the link. Still not able to get in. What does KFC stand for? 

[Mercury]

[mention=58]Mercury[/mention] Thanks for the link. Still not able to get in. What does KFC stand for? 

Kentucky fried chicken... I kid. KYC stand for Know Your Client. It's a financial term, it means the business or bank have to prove that they know who thier customer is for regulatory and anti money laundering reasons. Normally this is an exchange asking for copies of national ID, address, etc.

[italiandude]

@Mercury Read that as KFC and that's all I could think of haha. I'm not sure to best honest if I did KYC with ripple. I read that PDF it brings you the https://id.ripple.com/auth/migrate link. Could KYC help me at all if I just knew the username and not password? As that page doesn't let me get to another step with the invalid username and password. 

Edited May 25, 2017 by italiandude

[Mercury]

KYC with ripple means they have linked the name to the account and other forum users have mentioned that faced with the same issue that Ripple sometimes issued a encrypted key that could be use in migration. Worth a shot