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I was using my tz1 account to bake with bakechain for a while now.

I decided to run my own node to be able to vote on the proposal.

I was able to sync and run my own node but when I try to import my secret key using the command:

./tezos-client import secret key my_account

I have this error message:

"No matching plugin for key scheme"

I'm thinking that the issue come from the fact that the extracted private key from Bakechain is encrypted and this command is requesting a non-encrypted secret key.

  • Is there a way to make this command working with an encrypted secret key ?
  • Or is there a way to easily unencrypt a private key ?

Just for confirmation:

  • A encrypted private key usually start with : edsk
  • A unencrypted private key is a Hexadecimal chain of character. (And this command line request an unencrypted private key).

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  • Is your question really "how can I export a private key from Bakechain to tezos-client"? If someone tells you the correct way to import an encrypted (edesk, not edsk) key, will you ask how to get that from Bakechain?
    – Tom
    Apr 11, 2019 at 19:13
  • My question is to be able to import my private key (extracted from bakechain) using the command : ./tezos-client import secret key my_account But everytime i get the error message : "No matching plugin for key scheme" I can be wrong but my assumption is that my extracted private key from bakechain is encrypted and this command request an unencrypted private key. So my question is : is there a way to import an encrypted key or is there a way to extract an unencrypted key with bakechain or how to decode the Bakechain private key.
    – lexxor
    Apr 11, 2019 at 19:31

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If you key starts with edsk: do this

tezos-client import secret key my_account unencrypted:edsk...
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I don't know about bakechain, but I can say your tezos-client command is incorrect.

It needs to look like:

./tezos-client import secret key my_account encrypted:edesk1XXXX

where encrypted:edesk1XXXX is the encrypted version of your key.

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  • My secret key start with edsk ! I try to use your command line and still have the same error message
    – Lexxor
    Apr 11, 2019 at 21:53
  • Don't know then, sorry. I just know whenever I've seen the error message you posted it was because I used the command wrong and forgot to use the encrypted:edesk1 key.
    – lostdorje
    Apr 12, 2019 at 1:29

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