<p>Some (one?) of the *.log files are connected to your wallet.dat address database, knowing your bitcoin addresses implies knowing your transactions.</p>

<p>One (debug.log) is free format debugging text and may contain all kinds of identifying info.</p>

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<p>Bitcoin writes to some log files (bitcoin/*.log and bitcoin/database/log.nnnnnn )</p>

<p>Are these (and everything else other than wallet.dat) clear of any information that would allow a forensic investigation to determine which addresses a bitcoin installation had sent or received?</p>

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 - <a href="http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63488.msg743339#msg743339" rel="nofollow">http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63488.msg743339#msg743339</a></p>

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Related, but narrower, question: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/does-the-berkeleydb-based-wallet-dat-implementation-leak-private-key-data
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Are there any transaction-related artifacts left in the database?
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# Are there any transaction-related artifacts left in the database?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-02-11)

Bitcoin writes to some log files (bitcoin/\*.log and bitcoin/database/log.nnnnnn )

Are these (and everything else other than wallet.dat) clear of any information that would allow a forensic investigation to determine which addresses a bitcoin installation had sent or received?

Reworded question from:
- <http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63488.msg743339#msg743339>

**Tags:** security

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Related, but narrower, question: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2140/does-the-berkeleydb-based-wallet-dat-implementation-leak-private-key-data  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2012-03-10. Score: 1

Some (one?) of the \*.log files are connected to your wallet.dat address database, knowing your bitcoin addresses implies knowing your transactions.

One (debug.log) is free format debugging text and may contain all kinds of identifying info.


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