Topic: seed phrase is showing on my wallet (Read 558 times)
Yeah, as long as your wallet is encrypted, no one else should be able to see your seed. You will still be able to view your seed once you enter the password and unencrypt your wallet, but this can be a useful feature.
On the dialog that allows you to set a wallet password, there is a little checkbox that says "Encrypt wallet file":
If you enter a password and the box is NOT ticked... then your wallet file is basically "human readable" plaintext in JSON format, but your seed and/or all private keys are still stored "encrypted" within the wallet file... like this (obviously, I blurred the encrypted seed and xprv... but you can see the xprv starts with a "Q6" instead of "xprv"
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If you enter a password and the box IS ticket... then your seed and/or all your private keys are encrypted within the wallet file... and then the whole wallet file itself is also encrypted, so you can't read any of it... (NOTE: same wallet file as above pic but with encrypt wallet file ticked):
If you enter a password and the box is NOT ticked... then your wallet file is basically "human readable" plaintext in JSON format, but your seed and/or all private keys are still stored "encrypted" within the wallet file... like this (obviously, I blurred the encrypted seed and xprv... but you can see the xprv starts with a "Q6" instead of "xprv"
):If you enter a password and the box IS ticket... then your seed and/or all your private keys are encrypted within the wallet file... and then the whole wallet file itself is also encrypted, so you can't read any of it... (NOTE: same wallet file as above pic but with encrypt wallet file ticked):
Go to Wallet>Password. You can set a password there. Your seed will not be encrypted but your wallet file and your seed dialog can be.
When you set a password the seed is always encrypted. That's the whole point of setting a password.
Optionally you can select "Encrypt wallet file" on the password dialog box to encrypt the whole wallet file. If you do that you won't even be able to view your wallet's transactions until you enter the password.
Go to Wallet>Password. You can set a password there. Your seed will not be encrypted but your wallet file and your seed dialog can be.
When you set a password the seed is always encrypted. That's the whole point of setting a password.
Optionally you can select "Encrypt wallet file" on the password dialog box to encrypt the whole wallet file. If you do that you won't even be able to view your wallet's transactions until you enter the password.
I really love this feature in Electrum.
Thomas, if you are reading along here, would it be possible to code/allow for an encrypted "watching only" wallet file? Realizing I am not worried about security on any of my watching wallets, but adding PRIVACY for my watching only wallet files would be a great addition from my viewpoint. Possible?
Go to Wallet>Password. You can set a password there. Your seed will not be encrypted but your wallet file and your seed dialog can be.
When you set a password the seed is always encrypted. That's the whole point of setting a password.
Optionally you can select "Encrypt wallet file" on the password dialog box to encrypt the whole wallet file. If you do that you won't even be able to view your wallet's transactions until you enter the password.
Go to Wallet>Password. You can set a password there. Your seed will not be encrypted but your wallet file and your seed dialog can be.
when i click wallet > seed
i see my phrase. is there any way to hide it?
thanks!
i see my phrase. is there any way to hide it?
thanks!
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