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Re: [PATCH] wallet private key encryption
by
devrandom
on 29/03/2011, 15:37:44 UTC
However...    It remains a PITA with the current bitcoin implementation to perform whole-file encryption on the wallet.  db4 has whole-environment encryption, so that implies an encrypt-everything solution would encrypt the wallet, addr and blkindex databases.


It doesn't seem to hurt to encrypt everything?  I think symmetric encryption can do the entire block chain in about a second.

http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html