Recovering your Fordefi Wallet

Before you start, make sure you've completed the general recovery process in Station70 and downloaded your recovery package — see How to Recover Your Backup.

Step 1: Run the Fordefi Recovery Tool

Your recovery package contains everything you need:

  • fordefi_recovery_private.pem   — an RSA private key used to decrypt your Fordefi key shares
  • backup_snapshot.json   — your encrypted key shares and vault details (including HD derivation paths)
  1. Install the Fordefi recovery tool (see the Fordefi Recovery User Guide)
  2. Place the backup file in the same directory as the tool
  3. Run:
./recovery-tool public-key-recover -p backup_snapshot.json -k fordefi_recovery_private.pem -o output.csv

This decrypts your key shares and reconstructs your individual vault private keys, saving them to output.csv  .

That's it — your Fordefi wallet is recovered.


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