Quote from: cellard on April 09, 2019, 03:41:57 AM

...An additional protection to avoid that if someone accesses the file: even if they can use it since they would need the wallet.dat password to transact, they could still see all of your addresses, previous tx's.. I never understood why the password doesn't hide all of that...

I vaguely recall seeing an explanation as to why this is the case... I seem to recall it was because if the wallet.dat was fully encrypted (and not just private keys) you would need the password simply to open the wallet file at startup, and that this would be problematic when using "bitcoind", as it doesn't have a GUI to prompt the user for input etc.

At the end of the day... the private keys are protected (the most important thing) and if someone has access to be able to read your wallet.dat... you've probably got bigger problems that their ability to see your transactions/balances etc. Tongue