Is wallet encryption a one way street?

NRF

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Since you are getting unsolicited opinions Grin

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I have yet to be convinced about wallet encryption, there are a few scenarios that can corrupt your wallet that I cannot seem to find a way back from (i.e. bitcoin's lost).

I have make use of the "bitcoind dumpprivkey" whenever I create a new key just to be sure.

cbeast

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

No problem. Don't worry about the opinion, the first one is free. Grin

jon_smark

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Quote from: cbeast on August 20, 2012, 08:38:54 AM

You can't unencrypt a wallet, but you could move funds to an unencrypted wallet. Encryption is pretty important. I can't imagine why you would not want encryption for a personal wallet like the Original Bitcoin client.

Thanks for the reply. However, note that my question did not imply any opinion regarding wallet encryption. I was merely wondering if there was an API call missing from the wiki...