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[Jandur]

Maybe I'm missing something, but Electrum doesn't seem to require a password on startup? It just opens. Is this normal? I'm running it on Ubuntu.

[TheButterZone]

I've never had to enter it on startup, only when sending BTC and other "you may lose your BTC if this function isn't pass protected" things.

[bizz]

I'm not really sure about this but encrypted wallets will ask you for passwords and decrypt wallet only for short time when you are sending coins. If it asked you on startup it would keep the wallet open all the time and introduce additional risk.

[EagleTM]

Yes, this is standard behaviour. The password is used to protect your private keys (the seed). It's needed when you want to send a transaction for example. If you want to protect your wallet from prying eyes consider putting it in a true-crypt volume or similar.