Quote from: robinson5 on March 16, 2016, 09:41:30 PM

Why are we trying to retrieve the funds given to Zeuner? Don't we want someone examining shadowsend? I read after the alpha market release there are plans to hire a cryptographer. Would he/she be looking at just the market code or shadowsend as well?

Zeuner has become unresponsive, but we do however have his contact details. We're assuming that he hasn't been checking his emails anymore, but we're looking into alternative ways to contact him.

Yes we want someone to examine ShadowSend for sure, peer review is important.

The market code makes use of ShadowChat, which could certainly make use a of a review. The cryptography behind ShadowChat is very sound, we're more looking into a code review of that part. ShadowSend uses different cryptographical methods (Ring Sigs, NIZKP) that are not used in ShadowChat, because of the wide range of methods it's not easy finding a cryptographer that's experienced with all of them.

Quote from: robinson5 on March 16, 2016, 09:41:30 PM

Also, I made an HD wallet (I know I'm late) and didn't put a passphrase in. I sent all my coins to it and made a backup of the HD wallet, not that it is really needed. I wanted the wallet password protected so I hit settings, encrypt wallet and it warned me that all old backups wouldn't be useful for security reasons. Is this true? Should I replace those backups? And either way my phrase always works correct?

Well, we helped you with this on Slack so going to skip this, but for the sake of the purpose I will repost the instructions of dasource.

Quote from: dasource

When you first load the new HD wallet it will create a new HD account for you and set it as default ... I.e. any new addresses generated will be from the default HD account (unique to you). However as this is pre-generated and not user friendly to remember I suggest you proceed to create a new account using a mnemonic sentence.

My suggestion for existing users is ...

** ALWAYS BACKUP WALLET.DAT FIRST **

STEP1

1. Save your wallet.dat and rename it.
2. Load the latest Shadow client
3. Create a new HD Wallet (Settings --> Key Management --> New Key) - give it a "Label".
4. Goto (Key Management --> Advanced Management) and make sure that your new account "Label" has a tick next to the default field.
5. The wallet will have generated two new addresses in your "Receive Tab" - "Label" Address and "Label" Stealth Address
6. Send some funds to one of these new addresses (from your old wallet)

.. now I would suggest you try a restore of this account to test it!

STEP2
1. Save your wallet.dat and rename it.
2. Load the Shadow client
3. Goto (Settings --> Key Management --> Restore) - complete steps
4. Goto Help --> Debug --> Console and type "scanforalltxns 600000"
5. You should see your transaction show up.

If all goes well, you have the correct mnemonic and can then go back to your old wallet and send all your funds to the new wallet.
Your new HD wallet is setup and the mnemonic sentence + optional pass-code is all you need to access all new addresses.

Quote from: robinson5 on March 16, 2016, 09:41:30 PM

It was really awesome seeing how well the devs handled the bug and I can't wait for all the great things still to come. Thanks for the help!

I think we handled this bug very well, if anything we've come out stronger

You're welcome.