Why was Blockchain.info DecryptWallet removed?

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https://blockchain.info/DecryptWallet.html has been removed for quite some time. Anyone know why?

PS. FWIW, an archived copy at Pastebin

Wizard Of Ozzie

Posted 2014-08-14T09:42:46.610

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Your URL is bogus, did you mean https://blockchain.info/DecryptWallet.html ?

– Nate Eldredge – 2014-08-14T16:35:57.927

Fixed URL Above – Wizard Of Ozzie – 2014-08-26T02:17:06.007

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Have a look at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=594570.0 for ways to export your blockchain.info wallet to another client.

As for the why, at this point I would say it has to be bad organization or possibly lack of funding. Blockchain.info has been fundamentally broken for quite some time (a quick search yields a post on bitcointalk over a year old for a still unresolved, somewhat minor problem: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=271633.0 and if you do a bit of digging you can find plenty more)

Mark

Posted 2014-08-14T09:42:46.610

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How does/did this differ from the import wallet option once logged in? Source code here: http://pastebin.com/r2vFpz4e Is it because of security concerns? Also, given the source code, does the html still decrypt a wallet? I've had no luck, perhaps it's relying on server side JavaScript?

– Wizard Of Ozzie – 2014-08-16T04:13:07.077

Another option for exporting keys out of a bc.i wallet and into another is here: https://github.com/prof7bit/wallet-key-tool. Note however that it appears this tool doesn't support the full breadth of bc.i wallet formats: it supports version 2 wallets and only the most recent iteration (out of three) of version 1 wallets.

– Christopher Gurnee – 2015-04-17T16:08:40.470

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