Securing a Namecoin Wallet?

[Sage]

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?

[doublec]

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.

[Sage]

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...

[dust]

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

[Sage]

Worked perfectly.  Thanks!! 

[advanced]

why is it not safe just saving the wallet.dat file?