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Mysterium Network Node - official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol

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Start locking unused identities #1178

Open zolia opened 5 years ago

zolia commented 5 years ago

We can start a node without actually unlocking it, but we cannot lock identity after we unlocked it. This poses a couple of problems:

since we will be running multiple services we might not need identity at all or we might need to switch to another identity.
leaving multiple identities open consumes memory
if application dies (but node remains running) identity remains unlocked. This is a security issue and for a user might look awkward.

Implement identity locking endpoint. On applications shutdown (web / cli) we should lock identity automatically.

chompomonim commented 4 years ago

Is this issue still relevant? @zolia