Decrypting with passphrase issue

[Maxduck]

Hi... Hope this is an appropriate place to ask...

This stems from using the age encyption on Logseq.

Short story is that my files were encrypted and then I used https://github.com/kanru/logseq-encrypt-ui to decrypt the files.

This left me with some empty files and no way to decrypt the originals (wherever the key file was kept seems to have been written over).

If I try and decrpyt them I get the following error:
age: error: no identity matched any of the recipients

Is there a way I can recover the files? (no answers yet at logseq-encrypt-ui)

Thanks!

[itsamemarkus]

Hi, I don't know if you're the same person that just asked in logseq discord, but that was a nice puzzle for the evening.

I haven't scripted the automation to decrypt everything automatically, but to decrypt pages manually you first have to get the age secret key from logseq/metadata.edn with your password also known as age passphrase (finding that was the hardest part ^^)

I made a video for the whole process:

logseqdecrypt.mp4

The secret key you get there is valid for every encrypted file then.

In case the logseq-encrypt-ui tool messed something up and metadata.edn got overwritten because you encrypted and decrypted multiple times you might be out of luck. I tested it and it generated a different age secret even if you enter the same password.

Hope this works for you.

[Maxduck]

Hey @itsamemarkus, thanks so much for responding and taking the time to make the video!

Unfortunately, although I only used the logseq-encrypt-ui tool once, the metadata.edn was overwritten.... so I did lose the original age secret key which would decrypt the files... :(

I tried regenerating the key with the same passcode... but didn't work, so it makes sense that you said it generated a new age secret key.

Thanks again... and hope you enjoyed your evening puzzle!