Wallet Encryption
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-Bitcoin supports native wallet encryption so that people who steal your wallet
-file don't automatically get access to all of your Bitcoins. In order to enable
-this feature, chose "Encrypt Wallet" from the Options menu. You will be prompted
-to enter a passphrase, which will be used as the key to encrypt your wallet and
-will be needed every time you wish to send Bitcoins. If you lose this passphrase,
-you will lose access to spend all of the bitcoins in your wallet, no one, not even
-the Bitcoin developers can recover your Bitcoins. This means you are responsible
-for your own security, store your password in a secure location and do not forget
-it.
+Bitcoin supports native wallet encryption so that people who steal your
+wallet file don't automatically get access to all of your Bitcoins.
+In order to enable this feature, chose "Encrypt Wallet" from the
+Options menu. You will be prompted to enter a passphrase, which
+will be used as the key to encrypt your wallet and will be needed
+every time you wish to send Bitcoins. If you lose this passphrase,
+you will lose access to spend all of the bitcoins in your wallet,
+no one, not even the Bitcoin developers can recover your Bitcoins.
+This means you are responsible for your own security, store your
+password in a secure location and do not forget it.
-Remember that the encryption built into bitcoin only encrypts the actual keys
-which are required to send your bitcoins, not the full wallet. This means that
-someone who steals your wallet file will be able to see all the addresses which
-belong to you, as well as the relevant transactions, you are only protected from
-someone spending your coins.
+Remember that the encryption built into bitcoin only encrypts the
+actual keys which are required to send your bitcoins, not the full
+wallet. This means that someone who steals your wallet file will
+be able to see all the addresses which belong to you, as well as the
+relevant transactions, you are only protected from someone spending
+your coins.
-It is recommended that you backup your wallet file before you encrypt your wallet.
-To do this, close the Bitcoin client and copy the wallet.dat file from ~/.bitcoin/
-on Linux, /Users/(user name)/Application Support/Bitcoin/ on Mac OSX, and
-%APPDATA%/Bitcoin/ on Windows (that is /Users/(user name)/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin on
-Windows Vista and 7 and /Documents and Settings/(user name)/Application Data/Bitcoin
-on Windows XP). Once you have copied that file to a safe location, reopen the
-Bitcoin client and Encrypt your wallet. If everything goes fine, delete the backup
-and enjoy your encrypted wallet. Note that once you encrypt your wallet, you will
-never be able to go back to a version of the Bitcoin client older than 0.4.
+It is recommended that you backup your wallet file before you
+encrypt your wallet. To do this, close the Bitcoin client and
+copy the wallet.dat file from ~/.bitcoin/ on Linux, /Users/(user
+name)/Application Support/Bitcoin/ on Mac OSX, and %APPDATA%/Bitcoin/
+on Windows (that is /Users/(user name)/AppData/Roaming/Bitcoin on
+Windows Vista and 7 and /Documents and Settings/(user name)/Application
+Data/Bitcoin on Windows XP). Once you have copied that file to a
+safe location, reopen the Bitcoin client and Encrypt your wallet.
+If everything goes fine, delete the backup and enjoy your encrypted
+wallet. Note that once you encrypt your wallet, you will never be
+able to go back to a version of the Bitcoin client older than 0.4.
-Keep in mind that you are always responsible for you own security. All it takes is a
-slightly more advanced wallet-stealing trojan which installs a keylogger to steal
-your wallet passphrase as you enter it in addition to your wallet file and you have
-lost all your Bitcoins. Wallet encryption cannot keep you safe if you do not practice
-good security, such as running up-to-date antivirus software, only entering your
-wallet passphrase in the Bitcoin client and using the same passphrase only as your
-wallet passphrase.
+Keep in mind that you are always responsible for you own security.
+All it takes is a slightly more advanced wallet-stealing trojan which
+installs a keylogger to steal your wallet passphrase as you enter it
+in addition to your wallet file and you have lost all your Bitcoins.
+Wallet encryption cannot keep you safe if you do not practice
+good security, such as running up-to-date antivirus software, only
+entering your wallet passphrase in the Bitcoin client and using the
+same passphrase only as your wallet passphrase.
See the documentation at the bitcoin wiki:
git://git.novaco.in / novacoin.git / commitdiff