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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Am I Encrypting Right?
by
MaGNeT
on 22/06/2011, 05:30:42 UTC
So...am I doing this right? What I did:

1. Turn off Bitcoin.

2. Copy the wallet.dat file.

3. I used Winrar to make an encryption.

4. Copy that encrypted file to a safe place.

5. Delete the original wallet.dat file. (I won't lose anything right?)

Then when I need to spend, unencrypt the file and put it back into the roaming folder right?


Don't forget to back-up the encrypted file to another location...
If your encrypted file fails, your BTC are gone forever...
If your memory fails to remember the password, your BTC are gone forever...