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[FR] Support for Not Saving the Wallet Password

Open jclapis opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

This would remove the node wallet's password file (so the user must enter the password manually for each TX), which has been a popular request from security-minded people.

One problem with this mode is that it will break minipool deposits, since they're handled by the node (and it won't have your password anymore). We'll have to look into doing that directly from node deposit instead of letting the node take care of it on its timer.

jclapis avatar May 21 '21 01:05 jclapis

How about putting the password in memory for some time, kind of like how sudo works on a mac? That way you don't have to enter the password for every TX. Not sure how many transactions you need to do during a normal session, but I would be ok with entering my password once when doing some work on my node.

Won't fix the minipool deposits tho.

tedsteen avatar Sep 10 '21 11:09 tedsteen

What does it break? The stake transaction after scrub period? Why don't you just pre-sign it?

xrchz avatar May 14 '23 20:05 xrchz