This impacts customers of Alethzero GUI shopper on Home windows. Customers of eth CLI shopper or not on the Home windows platform are unlikely to be affected however ought to take motion detailed beneath. Customers of Frontier command line interface geth are unaffected.
Problem description: Whereas setting privateness permissions on the keys listing, inadequate error dealing with could cause the important thing information to not be written; this can be widespread on the Home windows platform. As such, present variations of AlethZero and eth could embody identities for which there exists no underlying key. Ether Presale Declare performance of AlethZero could end in funds robotically being transferred to those misplaced identities.
Workaround: Customers of AlethZero model 0.9.39 and earlier ought to NOT use the “Declare Presale Pockets” operate; customers of AlethZero and eth variations 0.9.39 and earlier shouldn’t try to mine or obtain funds into their addresses.
Customers of eth and AlethZero on all platforms ought to think about themselves protected as soon as they’ve confirmed that they do certainly have the underlying key. To verify (together with your present setup) run:
ethkey.exe –list
It’s possible you’ll assume that every one listed addresses do certainly have a key behind them and are usually not affected by this problem.
Remedial motion taken by Ethereum: New hotfix launched with adjustments:
Repair: Variations 0.9.40 and onwards, out there from circa 2015.08.07 18:30 CEST.