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In order to facilitate transaction signing, `rippled` offers the `sign` and
`sign_for` and `submit` commands, which, given a seed, can be used to sign or
sign-and-submit transactions. These commands are accessible from the command
line, as well as over the WebSocket and RPC interfaces that `rippled` can be
configured to provide.
These commands, unfortunately, have significant security implications:
1. They require divulging an account's seed (commonly known as a "secret
key") to the server.
2. When executing these commands against remote servers, the seeds can be
transported over clear-text links.
3. When executing these commands over the command line, the account
seed may be visible using common tools that show running processes
and may potentially be inadvertently stored by system monitoring
tools or facilities designed to maintain a history of previously
typed commands.
While this commit cannot prevent users from issuing these commands to a
server, whether locally or remotely, it restricts the `sign` and `sign_for`
commands, as well as the `submit` command when used to sign-and-submit,
so that they require administrative privileges on the server.
Server operators that want to allow unrestricted signing can do so by
adding the following stanza to their configuration file:
[signing_support]
true
Ripple discourages server operators from doing so and advises against using
these commands, which will be removed in a future release. If you rely on
these commands for signing, please migrate to a standalone signing solution
as soon as possible. One option is to use `ripple-lib`; documentation is
available at https://developers.ripple.com/rippleapi-reference.html#sign.
If the commands are administratively enabled, the server includes a warning
on startup and adds a new field in the resulting JSON, informing the caller
that the commands are deprecated and may become unavailable at any time.
Acknowledgements:
Jesper Wallin for reporting this issue to Ripple.
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disclose any issues that they may find. For more on Ripple's Bug Bounty
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