Story time, a boring one anyway. So I accidentally exposed my active key yesterday, resulting in me having to attempt to generate a whole set of new keys. And before I continue let me thank 
Long story short, my internet was acting up so I had to refresh and repeat some steps and that ended up starting the account creation process over, hence creating new keys, and I copied the wrong set. So even though I've been able to log in to InLEO and create content via keystore, I haven't had access to my HIVE keys to perform specific HIVE functions.
Here lies the problem:
Generating new keys is one of those HIVE specific functions. Its a pretty straightforward process but without your master password or owner key you're screwed and all I had was my keystore file and keystore password.
Now, I know you can recover a keystore with a seed-phrase, now the question becomes is it possible to reverse engineer to recover a seed-phrase with a keystore file?
If the answer is yes I may be in luck. Fortunately for me, I remember 
Now back to reverse engineering my problem. I know a keystore is an encrypted file that grants access to your private keys/seed phrase so it seems I would need to find a way to decrypt the file. I don't know shit about developing but I'm confident Chat GPT o1 could walk me through it.
My first input was: I need to decrypt a keystore file to access my private keys. Can you walk me through these steps?
AI is amazing. Not only did it provide the steps, it gave multiple options, some troubleshooting tips, and a summary. Here's some of the reply:
Good to go right? Not quite. After walking through some of the steps and getting some errors I came to a realization. This version of keystore wallets are not created using an Ethereum address! You can tell because the end of the keystore file says "xchain-keystore" instead of displaying an eth address.
This led me to asking Chat about xchain keystores. This is the part that mattered
Since Maya is a fork of Rune this looks like the way to go.
It provided 3 options, 2 using wallets and 1 using node.js. I'm a little familiar with node.js and I know I can run it locally so I decided to go that route.
After going back-and-forth with GPT and sharing a few screenshots, we finally got it done. Now with my seed phrase, I was able to import my account to HIVE keychain, retrieve the master & owner keys, then finally generate a new set of keys to secure my account.
Peace & Prosperity
