Re: Autostarting wallet question.
From: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:05:08 -0500
Message-ID: <CA+fnDAZma0Q_vmpPPD2bO2dzzwQeHBBzOf5_PP1C9ok9GDV8MQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just keep in mind that auto login wallet can be opened anywhere (on any
> system) without knowing the password. So if someone steals your wallet they
> can open it without a password and get access to all your encryption keys.
>
> If this is not desirable then auto login _local_ wallet might be a better
> choice - it can only be opened on the system where it was created.
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:05:08 -0500
Message-ID: <CA+fnDAZma0Q_vmpPPD2bO2dzzwQeHBBzOf5_PP1C9ok9GDV8MQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Just keep in mind that auto login wallet can be opened anywhere (on any
> system) without knowing the password. So if someone steals your wallet they
> can open it without a password and get access to all your encryption keys.
>
> If this is not desirable then auto login _local_ wallet might be a better
> choice - it can only be opened on the system where it was created.
YES - I would be hesitant to use an auto login wallet; the local wallet seems much more secure.
However from checking the docs, it seems to me that the local wallet was added in 11.2 - so if you're on 11.1 or older then you might need to consider other the regular auto login wallet.
Charles - if you were using a regular auto login wallet then maybe that's why you were seeing different behavior from me with querying the encryption view?
-Jeremy
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