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is it more safe to run enterprice locally then online? Started to read the docs going to try to run it locally if its more safe

Both are 100% safe

Thanks my wallet is almost synced. Took a few hours is that normal? In the docs they where talking about a waiting time af making a cup of tea? Also I cant seem to find where I can encrypt the wallet? Is it me or cant you really encrypt the enterprise wallet ?

You can't encrypt it. That s why I suggest to keep it exclusively on an offline machine. Turn it on only for transactions.

Hmm that doesn't sound like anything I want to trust my factoids with.. Going to check out the papermil wallet think thats the best option but I really hate the idea of sending coins to a address where I cant see if the coins are there.. pff but leaving it on polo isnt a option either.. hmm okay thanks anyway for all the tips guys

The inability to password-protect the factom enterprise wallet is unfortunate but (imho) it's easy to secure your factoids by running enterprise wallet in a clean linux os environment.

Download vmware player and install xubuntu in a virtual machine. Perform update on the os and reboot. To install enterprise wallet is one command "sudo dpkg -i enterprise-wallet-setup-amd64.deb". I don't remember if there are any dependencies needed but I can help if you run into any problems.

For the factomd that the enterprise wallet needs to connect to, you have 3 options. 1. factomd on the host machine, 2. factomd on a vps host you own, and 3. (i read a few pages back) factomd on the remote offered by the Factom foundation. I'm running option 2 on an ubuntu vps, but it may not be so easy with updates, plus possible compiling from source, and opening ports on the vps for your enterprise wallet to be able to connect to, etc. option 1 and option 3 are pretty easy, I think. The default gateway for the vm is already set to the host machine.

Once enterprise wallet is synced (with any of the options for factomd), perform some small receive and send factoids until you feel comfortable.

Backup is important and in that vm, your wallet is in /home/yourUserName/.factom but be very careful if you're going to straight up copy it to the host or to a usb flash, as once again, it is not password-protected. There are options to backing it up to an encrypted volume (i.e. veracrypt) and/or backup the whole vm (the xubuntu has a username/password so the vm does have security with limits)

This works for me and still get the peace of mind I have active controls of the factoids I own (able to send and receive as needed) and secure in a vm that has no malware as there's nothing else running or installed on the vm except enterprise wallet plus the xubuntu linux os. ymmv