Bitcoin version 0.4 released - page 3.

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Quote from: BkkCoins on September 24, 2011, 11:20:42 AM

Quote from: cypherdoc on September 24, 2011, 10:54:07 AM

i have a question. i want to use an very long complex password that i've memorized. however, i stopped the encryption when i saw just a single password entry window that hides the password itself. reason being is that if i mis type one character and proceed to ok the encryption i'm screwed, correct? if correct, why wasn't a "re-type password" window used?

Just did this myself and it does prompt a second time to re-enter the password before creating the new wallet.

thanks. didn't want to press ok until someone told me exactly what was going to happen next.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on September 24, 2011, 10:54:07 AM

i have a question. i want to use an very long complex password that i've memorized. however, i stopped the encryption when i saw just a single password entry window that hides the password itself. reason being is that if i mis type one character and proceed to ok the encryption i'm screwed, correct? if correct, why wasn't a "re-type password" window used?

Just did this myself and it does prompt a second time to re-enter the password before creating the new wallet.

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i have a question. i want to use an very long complex password that i've memorized. however, i stopped the encryption when i saw just a single password entry window that hides the password itself. reason being is that if i mis type one character and proceed to ok the encryption i'm screwed, correct? if correct, why wasn't a "re-type password" window used?

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Quote from: tsupp4 on September 24, 2011, 03:32:03 AM

You guys are great, thank you for this further step.
Is there a donation adress for the whole developer team or something similar?

There is not a donation address for the whole development team; if there was, somebody would have to be in charge of keeping track of the bitcoins, deciding what they should be spent on, etc.

I don't want to be that somebody....

If you like the wallet encryption feature, send bitcoins to:
Matt Corallo : 1JBMattRztKDF2KRS3vhjJXA7h47NEsn2c
and Jeff Garzik : 1BrufViLKnSWtuWGkryPsKsxonV2NQ7Tcj

Matt (aka "BlueMatt" in IRC) did the hard work of making wallet encryption happen, and deserves a ton of credit for being persistent and reworking ~~his~~ Jeff's initial implementation a few times based on feedback and suggestions.

Gregory Maxwell ('gmaxwell') also deserves credit and donations, he gave a lot of feedback and did a lot of testing:
gmaxwell : 1LjPAUKf23kDBy9sLJbiLfsvjde3ZdHcbJ

(corrected to give Jeff credit for the initial implementation-- sorry Jeff!)

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Quote from: Pieter Wuille on September 24, 2011, 10:00:24 AM

Quote from: BkkCoins on September 24, 2011, 09:17:50 AM

What is the encryption method/algorithm used?

dynamic iterated SHA512 hashing to derive a password key, AES256-CBC using the password key to encrypt a master key, AES256-CBC using the master key to encrypt the wallet keys.

More details are in the doc/README file in the tree:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/README#L70

Pieter Wuille

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Quote from: BkkCoins on September 24, 2011, 09:17:50 AM

Super Excellent!

What is the encryption method/algorithm used?

dynamic iterated SHA512 hashing to derive a password key, AES256-CBC using the password key to encrypt a master key, AES256-CBC using the master key to encrypt the wallet keys.

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Since the DB format has been updated how will that affect blockchain archives? Will there have to be two versions or will downloading an older version still work fine? I guess it auto-converts if it sees an older version DB?

The wallet format changed to support encrypted keys, the blockchain database format didn't.

The binary is linked using bdb4.8 instead of bdb4.7 though, which will upgrade the database logs well, in a backward-incompatible way.

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Quote from: error on September 24, 2011, 09:04:42 AM

And Microsoft will give you a current version of Windows for free.

OFF-TOPIC: Where can I signup for that free windows version?

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Super Excellent!

What is the encryption method/algorithm used?

Since the DB format has been updated how will that affect blockchain archives? Will there have to be two versions or will downloading an older version still work fine? I guess it auto-converts if it sees an older version DB?

proudhon

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Thanks devs. Keep up the fantastic work!

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Quote from: idontknow on September 24, 2011, 08:44:59 AM

Quote from: iamzill on September 23, 2011, 01:52:15 PM

Quote from: casascius on September 23, 2011, 01:42:30 PM

Quote from: Bitsky on September 23, 2011, 01:32:12 PM

Sadly still not working on W2k Cry

Switch to Linux. Surely W2K will have enough unpatched security holes that any bitcoins you own will surely get stolen.

Maybe it's his workplace machine. I can't imagine a bitcoiner using W2K by choice in the year 2011.

Yeah certainly not when XP is still available.

And Microsoft will give you a current version of Windows for free.

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Quote from: iamzill on September 23, 2011, 01:52:15 PM

Quote from: casascius on September 23, 2011, 01:42:30 PM

Quote from: Bitsky on September 23, 2011, 01:32:12 PM

Sadly still not working on W2k Cry

Switch to Linux. Surely W2K will have enough unpatched security holes that any bitcoins you own will surely get stolen.

Maybe it's his workplace machine. I can't imagine a bitcoiner using W2K by choice in the year 2011.

Yeah certainly not when XP is still available.

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Thanks guys! Keep up the good work

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Thanks the hard work of the development team!

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Thanks guys. Built-in encryption is great.

tsupp4

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You guys are great, thank you for this further step.
Is there a donation adress for the whole developer team or something similar?

tvbcof

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I'll be interested in two things, and I'll make some of my own estimates for the fun of it:

1) Ratio of BTC lost due to forgotten passphrase vs. those to stolen wallet.dat's:
1e) 10/1

2) First post here from someone needing to know how to get their coins from an encrypted wallet due to forgetting their passphrase:
2e) 3 days

Don't get me wrong...I think this is good an necessary work and I thank the dev team for it and all the other work. But I do anticipate the encryption contributing to the 'deflationary' nature of the currency

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"How do you eat an elephant? One bit at a time..."

+1

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Quote from: Pieter Wuille on September 23, 2011, 06:32:14 PM

Quote from: molecular on September 23, 2011, 06:28:22 PM

first off: congrats and thanks for the hard work to the devs.

A question:
How does using rpc call "sendtoaddress" work with an encrypted wallet?

From the point of RPC, the wallet is either in "locked" or "unlocked" state. You can use the "walletpassphrase" RPC call to unlock it for a limited time. Sendtoaddress and some other commands will fail if the wallet is locked.

Nice, that's a good solution. Thanks for the info, sipa.

Pieter Wuille

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Quote from: molecular on September 23, 2011, 06:28:22 PM

first off: congrats and thanks for the hard work to the devs.

A question:
How does using rpc call "sendtoaddress" work with an encrypted wallet?

From the point of RPC, the wallet is either in "locked" or "unlocked" state. You can use the "walletpassphrase" RPC call to unlock it for a limited time. Sendtoaddress and some other commands will fail if the wallet is locked.

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And perhaps sipa's mod can make it into the next release so we can all stop using pywallet? No offense to jackjack, it's an excellent tool, but frankly it's a tool that shouldn't exist considering there's been a pull request that duplicates its functionality for quite some time now.

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