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gigitrix

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Quote from: jhansen858 on June 04, 2011, 01:10:16 AM

guess i'm going to have to store my wallet in a truecrypt container...

hey isn't that open source as well?

damn that sounds like a match made in heaven.

Sure is! Hopefully the devs have talked about more officially securing the wallet file, but it's nothing we can't do manually until then. Plus you can dump copies of the truecrypt volume on dropbox or wherever so if your PC goes kaput you don't lose the coins!

jhansen858

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guess i'm going to have to store my wallet in a truecrypt container...

hey isn't that open source as well?

damn that sounds like a match made in heaven.

DannyM

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There is not. That has been outside the scope of this project, but there are several projects for a future "secure wallet protocol".

Here are the best practices in the meantine: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet

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IS there any mechanism currently in place which would prevent someone from writing a worm or virus purpose is to seek out and steal, wallet.dat ?

Seems like if someone gets that file your completely F'd.

Just throwing that out there we might need some way to prevent this simple attack if there isn't one already.

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