📅 Original date posted:2011-07-04
🗒️ Summary of this message: A new feature in Bitcoin 0.4 allows for the creation of an encrypted wallet, which can replace the old unencrypted keying material.
📝 Original message:On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen at 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.
Gregory Maxwell [ARCHIVE] /
npub1f2…crwet
2023-06-07 02:02:58
in reply to nevent1q…qnlc
Author Public Key
npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwetPublished at
2023-06-07 02:02:58Event JSON
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