Encrypted password error/warning

[Milouze]

ASF works as expected (I believe) despite the recent config change I made in regards to the password being encrypted.

Though every time I start it since then, I get the below in yellow:

2017-06-09 12:04:02|ASF-6288|ERROR|ASF|DecryptAES() System.FormatException: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters.

at System.Convert.FromBase64_Decode(Char* startInputPtr, Int32 inputLength, Byte* startDestPtr, Int32 destLength)
at System.Convert.FromBase64CharPtr(Char* inputPtr, Int32 inputLength)
at System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s)
at ArchiSteamFarm.CryptoHelper.DecryptAES(String encrypted)

Could you please help me understand what the issue is and how to resolve it ?
Otherwise, should I just ignore it ?

[Miku]

Did you set PasswordFormat to the correct corresponding value?

[Archi]

You changed PasswordFormat but your inputted password does not match that format, aka you did not put there what !password generated for you.

[Milouze]

I'm using the ASF-ConfigGenerator, can't find anything generated anywhere after changing the authentication to AES. Where do I have to look in order to find the correct input (which I understand I then need to past in the 'password' field) ?

[Archi]

Originally posted by Milouze:

I'm using the ASF-ConfigGenerator, can't find anything generated anywhere after changing the authentication to AES. Where do I have to look in order to find the correct input (which I understand I then need to past in the 'password' field) ?

By reading security section on the wiki, as stated in description of PasswordFormat field that you changed without reading what it does.

[Milouze]

What a nice response

I did read that section, but i was expecting ASF to provide me with that input upon first run after changing that value. Now I understand I'm supposed to get it from the !password command but, as for anything related to commands (ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Commands), I never managed to "talk" to ASF via chat. I've always been using the original config file (and then the Config Generator afterwards).

I don't know how I can chat with ASF, and the wiki thinks it's so obvious it doesn't require a step by step explanation (or is this explained somewhere else in the wiki ?):
simply execute command to ASF bot that is currently running in ASF process

Sorry but it's anything but simple when you don't know how to do it, but again that's just me being too stupid to have that "simple" approach you guys have I guess

[Archi]

Maybe if you instead asked how to execute !password command instead of acting like you have no idea what you're doing, then you'd get different response .

https://github.com/JustArchi/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Commands

You even have screenshot there.