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Encryptwallet

encryptwallet

Encrypts the wallet with 'passphrase'. This is for first time encryption.

Arguments

Position Name Type Required Default Description

Result

"str"    (string) A string with further instructions

Examples

Encrypt your wallet
 raptoreum-cli encryptwallet "my pass phrase"
Now set the passphrase to use the wallet, such as for signing or sending raptoreum
 raptoreum-cli walletpassphrase "my pass phrase"
Now we can do something like sign
 raptoreum-cli signmessage "address" "test message"
Now lock the wallet again by removing the passphrase
 raptoreum-cli walletlock
As a JSON-RPC call
 curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "encryptwallet", "params": ["my pass phrase"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:10225/