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Title: Securing a Namecoin Wallet? Post by: Sage on March 16, 2013, 02:47:38 AM I'm not getting too much help at the namecoin forum. I'm hoping someone here can help.
How do I secure the wallet.dat file? I'm on a Mac, and right now it's in the applications support directory UNENCRYPTED? That's a disaster waiting to happen. Any way I can change the wallet.dat location and put it in a Truecrypt vault? Title: Re: Securing a Namecoin Wallet? Post by: doublec on March 16, 2013, 05:00:45 AM Use the "-datadir" command line option:
Code: namecoind -datadir=/foo/bar/baz/somewhere Make sure the wallet,dat and namecoin.conf are in that directory. If that directory is located on an encrypted drive it'll be encrypted. Any command you run though can access it since it's unencyrpted while you're logged on. But at least if your machine gets stolen it is safe assuming the encryption is solid. Title: Re: Securing a Namecoin Wallet? Post by: Sage on March 16, 2013, 05:49:45 AM Anyway to specify just the wallet location, not the entire database? The blockchain I can imagine will get pretty large. Hard to keep that backed up to the cloud this way...
Title: Re: Securing a Namecoin Wallet? Post by: dust on March 16, 2013, 05:57:51 AM Anyway to specify just the wallet location, not the entire database? The blockchain I can imagine will get pretty large. Hard to keep that backed up to the cloud this way... Use a symlink: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153569.msg1630124#msg1630124 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153569.msg1630124#msg1630124)Title: Re: Securing a Namecoin Wallet? Post by: Sage on March 16, 2013, 06:19:06 AM Worked perfectly. Thanks!! ;D
Title: Re: Securing a Namecoin Wallet? Post by: advanced on December 27, 2013, 11:05:23 PM why is it not safe just saving the wallet.dat file?
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