From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Encrypted Wallet Backward Compatibility
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:59:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRQApH+ObyXpwV0bCEv7q7BNs6HtzcBOo6+mixCwY93cw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T31ZuQHKwcNnb9-NpaCA6c43PXVZ+Tc+GZ=2Wkz08enHw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com> wrote:
> 0.4 and later could, on wallet encryption, create a wallet_e.dat
> (encrypted wallet). Then truncate wallet.dat and set its
> file-permissions to 000, so if old versions of bitcoin OR any dumb
> wallet backup scripts try to read it they fail.
[snip]
Rewriting the old one before erasing it and replacing it with a
placeholder might increase the chances that the old unencrypted keying
material was not left on disk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-04 17:52 Matt Corallo
2011-07-04 18:20 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-04 18:23 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-04 20:39 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-05 1:10 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-05 2:26 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-05 2:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-10 14:21 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-10 19:10 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-07-05 11:03 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-04 20:59 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2011-07-04 21:18 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-04 22:30 ` Gregory Maxwell
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