Electrum password in memdump?

[ArpFlush]

Hello, I was wondering if one could find my password in a memdump of my machine 

[OmegaStarScream]

Hello, I was wondering if one could find my password in a memdump of my machine 

If you forgot your password then you can restore your wallet using the seed that you got once you setup the wallet .

[ArpFlush]

Hello, I was wondering if one could find my password in a memdump of my machine 

If you forgot your password then you can restore your wallet using the seed that you got once you setup the wallet .

I'm just asking for security reasons 

[Abdussamad]

Yep they probably could if they took it while you are sending bitcoins. In the process you would have to enter your password and for a while that would be in memory. Electrum uses python so it doesn't have the low level hardware access that say bitcoin core does. Core can scrub the memory after its done while electrum probably can't. It has to rely on the OS to do that.

[ArpFlush]

Yep they probably could if they took it while you are sending bitcoins. In the process you would have to enter your password and for a while that would be in memory. Electrum uses python so it doesn't have the low level hardware access that say bitcoin core does. Core can scrub the memory after its done while electrum probably can't. It has to rely on the OS to do that.

ic, well meanwhile I'm testing it but with an empty test wallet. I did have to enter my password to export the private keys so normally it might be in the memdump (the password). However, I didn't find it (yet).

[DuddlyDoRight]

If the timing is correct. It's stored on a call stack in a virtual allocation and taken out by a UI thread..

Feel free to verify with ollydbg, windbg, or gdb..