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Bitcoin => Wallet software => Topic started by: jubalix on April 18, 2013, 03:37:00 PM



Title: protection for Multibit and Electrum
Post by: jubalix on April 18, 2013, 03:37:00 PM
Is there away to require a password before these can be used to send something???? like there is in BitCoin QT Client?


Title: Re: protection for Multibit and Electrum
Post by: empoweoqwj on April 18, 2013, 03:43:06 PM
Yes, Electrum uses the "master password" before you can send.

Multibit, I'm not sure of. I know it doesn't encrypt wallet files.


Title: Re: protection for Multibit and Electrum
Post by: jim618 on April 18, 2013, 03:50:05 PM
In the MultiBit 0.5.9 release candidate you can encrypt wallets in quite a similar manner to Bitcoin QT.
(You have to enter a password before you send bitcoin and the private keys are stored encrypted).

This is available for testers here: https://multibit.org/releases/multibit-0.5.9rc1 (https://multibit.org/releases/multibit-0.5.9rc1)
If the testing goes well it will go on general release next week.

You can read the help to find out more: https://multibit.org/v0.5/help_contents.html (https://multibit.org/v0.5/help_contents.html)