Recovering your Fordefi Wallet
This article covers how to recover your Fordefi wallet after you have performed a backup
Login to Station70 and go to your Backups tab on the left side of your screen. Select your Fordefi backup and choose "Entire Workspace Recovery". Members of your Policy will need to approve your request to recover your backup. They will be notified via email, and will see an item in their Actions section when they login. Once approved, the requestor will go to the Recoveries tab on the left side of the screen and select "Local Download," and start the recovery.
After Station70 approves, download the recovery package. Install the Fordefi recovery tool, (Fordefi Recovery User Guide) place the backup file in the same directory, and run: ./recovery-tool public-key-recover -p backup_snapshot.json -k fordefi_recovery_private.pem -o output.csv.
This generates an output.csv file with your keys. The Fordefi recovery package downloaded from Station70 contains 2 parts with 3 major components:
- An RSA private key used for decryption of Fordefi key shares (fordefi_recovery_private.pem)
- A backup_snapshot.json containing encrypted key shares and vaults (including HD derivation paths)
- Encrypted Fordefi key shares can be decrypted using the fordefi_recovery_private.pem
- Vaults, including name, type, and derivation path are also in this file