What is wallet.dat.gpg?

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I'm trying to convince myself that I'm backing up my wallet correctly. I am told my private keys are in the wallet.dat file, but what is wallet.dat.gpg? It's not listed here.

spraff

Posted 2014-03-06T19:11:59.670

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Answers

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The .gpg file extension is often used to indicate a GnuPG encrypted file. Somebody, or something, at some time, probably made an encrypted copy of your wallet.dat file and named it wallet.dat.gpg.

Greg Hewgill

Posted 2014-03-06T19:11:59.670

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Well it wasn't me manually. I use bitcoin-qt. The wallet should be encrypted already (I have a padlock icon) so I don't understand where gpg comes into it. My question is who/what is the "somebody or something". – spraff – 2014-03-06T21:54:06.810

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