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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Bitcoin wallet question.
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andrew.skretvedt
on 02/07/2011, 05:57:55 UTC

Oh, I forgot, also this private key is always stored encrypted. With a slow key scheduling cipher like blowfish preventing effective brute-force attacks on the passphrase used to lock it. This eliminates most, to effectively all, of the risk in the snatch-and-grab scenario of a having your key on a mobile client, and having a thief make off with the key file, or jack your laptop at the Starbucks.