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Comment by brulez

From my understanding, that code is just a verification that the password you entered to decrypt your wallet was correct. It works by testing one of the addresses in the wallet (verifying that the secret key matches the pubkey address).

If one works, they should all work. If they don't then the wallet file is probably corrupted. So it'd be a nice check for corruption but doesn't seem to have much of a security implication.

parent brulez 12 years ago

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