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Board Hardware wallets
Re: Bitcoin Wallet for Android
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Andreas Schildbach
on 06/05/2013, 18:02:34 UTC
great app but is there a way to encrypt the wallet ?
Is it not a problem if the wallet in the android application is not encrypted ?

Currently you can't. It should not be a problem because Android already isolates your app private files against all other non-root apps. So as long as you're not running anything as root you should be safe.

Alright thank you Smiley But I use root apps (ES Explorer for example).

So you better have reasons to trust these apps very well.

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Are there plans to implement this feature ?

It's planned, but there is still some work to do, and its not my top priority. One reason is it won't help in cases like yours: If an app has got root, it can probably just capture keypresses or trick you into signing their transaction. Encryption just puts the bar a little bit higher for a successful attack, but its far from a silver bullet.