<p>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.</p>

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2013-11-01T07:01:09.700Z
2013-11-01T07:01:09.700Z
David Schwartz
<p>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, <a href="https://ripple.com/wiki/JSON_Messages#sign" rel="nofollow">the <code>sign</code> message</a>). 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.</p>

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2013-11-01T18:58:18.030Z
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
<wallet><ripple><json-rpc>
Does rippled store any information on accounts and addresses?
ThePiachu
# Does rippled store any information on accounts and addresses?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-01)

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](https://ripple.com/wiki/JSON_Messages#sign)). 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.

**Tags:** wallet, ripple, json-rpc

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 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.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-11-01. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

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.


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