Davide Palma

hi, would you mind sending the DB file to t.me/eldavo ?

> In case it matters: the media files are mcrypt1 encrypted but I have not even attempted decrypting them yet. You need additional metadata to decrypt those files, you can...

That's understandable. Are you able to try and decrypt other DB files, like avatar_backup, stickers, etc etc?

> would it help if I uploaded a new WhatsApp backup from my phone into Google Drive without end-to-end encrypting it? I You would then need to extract the key...

No, let me see how to fix it

> So the solution is to use the util `hex_string_to_encrypted_backup_key.py` included in the repo. and then use the generated file in the decrpyt command Example usage `hex_string_to_encrypted_backup_key.py 8d692080deea0a624125b787618c269a5dd29d8cfbbfd7a00cd57efd739eb8b9 ouput_key` wacreatekey...

> but I've been unable to decrypt my db. I tried with a fresh backup and it worked. Sorry everyone, but I've been shallow and I've deleted the old test...

As a last resort, you might try using `waguess`.

I will close this issue since I got no news on this

Hi, encryption still needs work