Guys, please someone tell me, how is it still possible that the full client for Windows still does not support encryption of the wallet.dat file?! IMHO this should be there in version 0.0.0.1 alpha. Am I misunderstanding something obvious here? I have been waiting for this very trivial feature provided by all other cryptos that I know, but still, on GitHub there is still the same security warning: no encryption! Please, tell me there is a good reason for this, even though I cannot imagine yet what that could possibly be.
This is certanly not an trivial thing!The issue comes from the original Zcash code where due to "stability problems", wallet encryption was disabled.
https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/2011Vaklinov (Dev) commented on 18 Nov 2017
"The ZEN private keys are stored in the wallet.dat file by the ZEN core node and it does not yet support encryption at file level. For that matter ZCash does not support encryption yet either... Encryption will surely be supported in the future."
One ZEN wallet that already supports encryption is Arizen:
https://github.com/ZencashOfficial/arizen