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Wallet encryption issue

1 message, 10 Nov 2011. Started by Alan Reiner.

Alan Reiner

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Sorry guys, I just realized I should've posted this to the dev list first, before/instead of putting it on the forums.

    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51474

*I still have some of my private keys in plaintext. *I would guess that BSDDB sometimes will "overwrite" data by just discarding a pointer to the old data, and writing the replacement to a new location within the file. In that case, examining the file with a BSDDB library tool is not going to find this problem. You'll have to examine the raw binary file as I did. Instructions for verifying this problem are in the post.

Can someone please verify that this is a real problem? (and should we maybe remove my post until there's a remediation plan? This is problem the best kind of problem to disclose after it's fixed) -Alan