Credits

A number of third-party open source libraries are distributed with the btcrecover package. All credits for any third-party libraries go to their respective authors, and the libraries themselves may only be distributed under the terms of their respective licenses. In alphabetical order, this includes but is not limited to:

• aespython, please see aespython/README.txt for more information

• BitcoinLib, please see bitcoinlib/README.rst for more information

• Cashaddress, please see cashaddress/README.md for more information

• Passlib, please see passlib/README.txt for more information

• progressbar, please see progressbar/README.txt for more information

• bitcoinj wallet protobuf, please see wallet.proto for more information

• sha512-kernel.cl, please see sha512-bc-kernel.cl for more information

Thanks to Bitcointalk.org user Wotan777 who discovered a better way to work with Electrum 1.x wallets, and who made extract-electrum-halfseed.py possible.

Thanks also to JetBrains, developers of the excellent PyCharm integrated development environment for Python. The PyCharm IDE is the first (and last) IDE I turn to for my Python needs.