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Re: LinuxCoin A lightweight Debian based OS with everything ready to go.
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drgr33n
on 20/07/2011, 22:00:47 UTC
Quote from: Smalleyster on July 20, 2011, 09:17:52 PM
Quote from: drgr33n on July 20, 2011, 08:45:01 PM
Quote from: Smalleyster on July 20, 2011, 08:19:03 PM

I have been experimenting with simple ways to encrp the wallet file alone and then email it to oneself. It would need to be able to be decrpted easily in Windows. Truecrypt seems way too cumbersome and others are such a hassle to install.

Dumb Question:

Are the secure and unsecure bitcoin clients different wallets?

This does just encrypt your wallet.dat and you can acces your wallet in windows using FreeOTFE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE Wink I suppose they are Cheesy the unsecured bitcoin client just opens the bitcoin software as normal the secure bitcoin client moves the wallet over to your encrypted space andsymlinks it back. Once finished it closes the encrypted space so there's no wallet.dat to steal Wink

If you started a secure bitcoin client then tried to access your secure wallet the file wouldn't exist and a new wallet would be created.

This sounds like it might cause a conceptual problem some of my friends have had while using cryptkeeper.

Have you dealt with the issue of: One had a secure wallet encrypted and forgot to open the encrypted file/folder at startup. Then they use bitcoin client that finds no wallet and creates another one. Then they remember to use the encryption and it does not work because the new wallet is in the way. Now it's file manager rename game and they really screw things up! 8^)

Another issue with cryptkeeper; once you make an encrypted folder I have not found a way to change the password. One has to make a new folder...


A valid point but if you open unsecured, then open secured after the new created wallet is discarded for the one located in the encrypted space. This is why bitcoin is opened before the script goes ahead and sets up the encryption. What I will do on that note is at something to detect if a wallet already exists and if it does copy it also across to the encrypted space under a new name in case someone has coins on the old wallet.

You can change your passwords using dm-crypt. You can also set more than one password to a file.

Quote from: Jen4538 on July 20, 2011, 09:33:13 PM
where do i change the screen resolution in linuxcoin 0.2b  ?


Jen

Open up a terminal and type.

Code:
lxrandr

And you will be met with a GUI that you can change the resolution.