From 1db5f372c36eb701602a70a358de2344726ed734 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bitflash Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 10:01:36 -0300 Subject: wallet encryption: the stack from #130–#133, with the two blockers fixed (#134) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * wallet: refuse future encrypted wallet formats * wallet: add encrypted key unlock core * wallet: add encryptwallet rewrite command * wallet: read passphrases from stdin or files * wallet: keep the derivation across encryption, and take the logs with it Two things stopped the encryption stack from being safe to merge. Both were found against a wallet holding real coin, not in the self-tests. 1. Encrypting turned a BIP44 wallet into a legacy one. LoadWallet() ends by resetting the schema and the derivation counters when no seed is in memory. That was written when "no seed after loading" could only mean the wallet had none. An encrypted wallet has a seed -- it just has not been decrypted yet -- so the reset threw away metadata that had been read correctly a moment earlier. Unlocking later restores the seed and nothing restores the rest. Measured on the wallet from the #124 proof: after encrypting, index 1 moved off BAtgSgra2X8Dqo5PJzPCLJhPwrrC2thYVJ, the address actually holding 1.00 BTF, and the audit went from "1.00 covered by the phrase" to "0.00 covered, 1.00 wallet.dat-only". Encrypt your wallet and the program told you your recovery phrase no longer covered your money. Now the condition also accepts a wallet whose seed is present but encrypted. Same wallet, before and after: schema bip44, same four derived addresses, 1.00 BTF still reported as covered. 2. The plaintext keys stayed behind in the Berkeley DB logs. wallet.dat comes out clean -- verified by scanning the raw file for the 118 bytes of a known private key. database/log.0000000002 did not: it held the whole key, and still did after a full node restart, because every record this wallet ever wrote passed through the log. That defeats the feature for the case it exists for, since our own backup advice is to copy the whole directory rather than wallet.dat alone. log_archive() cannot fix it: it only drops logs Berkeley DB considers obsolete and never the one it is writing to, and with one 10 MB log per directory that is precisely where the keys are. They also did not get there at encryption time -- they accumulated over the wallet's whole life -- so nothing done during the rewrite can archive them out. So the encrypt command now closes the environment and deletes the logs on its way out, after the flush that makes every .dat self-contained. This is not secure erasure; the blocks are unlinked, not overwritten. It closes the case of someone reading a copied data directory. Getting there uncovered a third bug, older than both. DBFlush(true) is not safe to call twice. The first call closes the environment, and txn_checkpoint() on a closed environment segfaults instead of returning an error, so the try/catch around it never sees anything. EncryptWallet() already flushes before renaming the wallet, and the command flushes again on the way out -- that pair crashed every single time. Guarded now. The same function has been calling log_archive() with the address of an uninitialised pointer since 0.1.0, on every clean shutdown, in a path whose catch(...) cannot catch a structured fault on Windows. DB_ARCH_REMOVE requires that argument to be NULL. Fixed while here, because the encryption cleanup depends on that call not being a coin flip. --------- Co-authored-by: Gilcimar Duarte --- src/walletcmd.cpp | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/walletcmd.cpp') diff --git a/src/walletcmd.cpp b/src/walletcmd.cpp index b449df9..06f35a5 100644 --- a/src/walletcmd.cpp +++ b/src/walletcmd.cpp @@ -406,6 +406,36 @@ int CmdRecoveryAudit() return 0; } +int CmdEncryptWallet(const std::string& strPassphrase) +{ + AttachTerminal(); + + string strBackup; + string strError; + if (!EncryptWallet(strPassphrase, strBackup, strError)) + { + fprintf(stderr, "Cannot encrypt wallet: %s\n", strError.c_str()); + fprintf(stderr, "Nothing was changed.\n"); + return 1; + } + + printf("Wallet encrypted.\n"); + printf("The old unencrypted wallet was moved to:\n"); + printf(" %s\n", strBackup.c_str()); + printf("That backup still contains private keys in plain text. Move it offline or\n"); + printf("delete it after you have a safer backup plan.\n"); + printf("Restart Bitflash before using the wallet again.\n"); + fflush(stdout); + + // The rewritten wallet.dat is clean; the environment's write-ahead logs are + // not, because every plaintext record this wallet ever wrote passed through + // them. Closing the environment and dropping the logs is the last step of + // encrypting, not an optimisation -- our own backup advice is to copy the + // whole directory, and following it otherwise carries the keys along. + PurgeDbEnvironmentLogs(); + return 0; +} + // Spend, from the command line. // // SendMoney() has been in this tree since 0.1.0 and only the window ever called @@ -421,6 +451,12 @@ int CmdSendTo(const std::string& strArg) { AttachTerminal(); + if (IsWalletLocked()) + { + fprintf(stderr, "Wallet is encrypted and locked. Start with /walletpassphrase or /walletpassphrase=@FILE to spend.\n"); + return 1; + } + std::string::size_type comma = strArg.rfind(','); if (comma == std::string::npos) { -- cgit v1.2.3