Hello shorena,
Thanks for the reply. One reason I was nervous is that near the end of my default_wallet text is "mpk" followed by some random characters. I translated "mpk" as Master Private Key (I could be totally wrong. What is "mpk" anyway?).
As nerioseole said mpk is the master public key. Its still a problem if the master public key and at least one private key are compromised, but the master public key alone is useless for someone trying to steal your bitcoin. They would just know all your addresses, but not the private keys for them.
And I'm guessing the actual Master Private Key will also just be a string of random characters. So I have no way of telling if the characters after "mpk" are encrypted or not. You're saying they are so I can rest easy.
When looking at some string its hard to tell if its just some form to safe it or actual encryption. Here is another test wallet, this time I did not use a password. As you can see the seed string is shorter. The "==" at the end of the encrytped string above is usually an indication for encryption.
'master_public_key': 'cb1158cbf7c12a3aedac47c581b1a7204015370ea5f401429ecb7dfb114c6df6cc68f675f055b73571de71999d15309237292244f86fc4f81d8780ffcac8bb16',
'use_encryption': False,
'seed': '8e72fc3cba70761e83b95fd27ced318f',
Thanks for helping a newbie. Cheers,
Advait
PS: And I promise cross-my-heart to do lots of regular backups of my wallets. :-)
As nerioseole allready said: just keep your seed safe, the file is less important as long as its protected by a password.