Does rippled store any information on accounts and addresses?

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I am looking at Ripple API overview, and it looks to take a different approach from Bitcoin as to handling one's private keys. In Bitcoin, one requires to use a wallet and often a password to that wallet to create transactions. In Ripple, it looks like transactions that require one's private key need to have it passed as a parameter in a given JSON call (for example, the sign message). Does this mean that rippled does not store any information about a given user or a company that hosts it and connects to it? I do see a wallet.db file in the database folder, but I'm not sure what it's used for.

ThePiachu

Posted 2013-11-01T04:21:38.450

Reputation: 41 594

The "sign" API is only meant to be used if you happen to have a local trusted rippled and a secure connection to it. Real clients should instead sign transactions themselves. – dchapes – 2013-11-01T18:58:18.030

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The Ripple server does not store accounts or keys. At one time, the Ripple server had accounts and keys in the wallet database. It no longer does.

David Schwartz

Posted 2013-11-01T04:21:38.450

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