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FWIW I did manage to decrypt the sqlite database with the encryption key that you create for google drive backups (and should have noted down somewhere).

It's been a while, but I think I used this github repo [0], that was the first search result, and it also mentions the 64 character long key.

[0] https://github.com/ElDavoo/wa-crypt-tools



Quickly tried it out again, and it still works

If you still have the key and encrypted database, you "only" need to:

1. Have python

2. Install the project like described in the README

3. Execute

  wacreatekey --hex <your_64_characters>
4. Execute

  wadecrypt encrypted_backup.key msgstore.db.crypt15 msgstore.db




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