<p>The migrated wallet will be encrypted with the same passphrase.</p>

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2022-08-17T14:37:54.380Z
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Ava Chow
<p>Surely the Wallet migration tool by achow will port unencrypted legacy wallets to unencrypted descriptor wallets, but what will be the output for encrypted legacy wallets? unencrypted descriptor wallet (less-is-more), or encrypted descriptor wallet (funds-are-safu)?</p>

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wallet migration tool and password protected wallet
Mercedes
# wallet migration tool and password protected wallet

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-08-17)

Surely the Wallet migration tool by achow will port unencrypted legacy wallets to unencrypted descriptor wallets, but what will be the output for encrypted legacy wallets? unencrypted descriptor wallet (less-is-more), or encrypted descriptor wallet (funds-are-safu)?

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, wallet, wallet.dat


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-08-17. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

The migrated wallet will be encrypted with the same passphrase.


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