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Board Armory
Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
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cypherdoc
on 09/03/2013, 00:15:53 UTC
Okay I understand your intention Smiley

Two more question Smiley ->
- When my armory wallet is encrypted, is the paper wallet encrypted too?
- Do I have to worry that the wallet format of the paper wallet is no more supported in x years !?

I really love your client and hope you won't stop the development someday!

Paper backups are never encrypted.  Part of the reason is to guarantee that you have a useful backup in X years when you need it -- and most people would forget the encryption passphrase by then and it would be like not having a backup at all.

The paper backup displays the "Wallet Version", which is all you need to know.  Even though I'm making a new wallet version now, I will still support the old one.  Even in 10 years, any prior version of Armory that ever worked will let you recover the wallet and print off a list of all your private keys.   Either way, the code to create the private keys from your paper backup should be a permanent part of Armory, even if Armory doesn't produce those wallets anymore, but because I promised you it would still work 10 years from now Smiley

I've written the paper backup on notes by hand (I don't own a printer) and haven't noted the version of the wallet. It this a necessity?

that's a good thing.  ink rollers can't be stolen!

just make sure you can distinguish between 0OIl's.