Label: Security

Pages about security issues and precautions.

Concepts

Accounts Cryptographic Keys
Use cryptographic keys to approve transactions so the XRP Ledger can execute them.
Accounts Multi-Signing
Use multi-signing for greater security sending transactions.
Accounts Deposit Authorization
The DepositAuth setting lets an account block incoming payments by default.
Transaction Basics Source and Destination Tags
Use source and destination tags to indicate specific purposes for payments from and to multi-purpose addresses.
Payment Types Partial Payments
Partial payments subtract fees from the amount sent, delivering a flexible amount. Partial payments are useful for returning unwanted payments without incurring additional costs.
Tokens Authorized Trust Lines
Authorized trust lines is a setting to limit who can hold a token.
Tokens Issuing and Operational Addresses
Businesses sending transactions on the XRP Ledger automatically should set up separate addresses for different purposes to minimize risk.
Consensus Network Invariant Checking
Understand what Invariant Checking is, why it exists, how it works, and what invariant checks are active.
Consensus Network Transaction Malleability
Be aware of ways transactions could be changed to have a different hash than expected.

Tutorials

Production Readiness Set Up Secure Signing
Set up an environment where you can submit transactions securely.
Manage Account Settings Assign a Regular Key Pair
Authorize a second key pair to sign transactions from your account. This key pair can be changed or removed later.
Manage Account Settings Change or Remove a Regular Key Pair
Remove or update a regular key pair already authorized by your account.
Manage Account Settings Disable Master Key Pair
Disable the master key that is mathematically associated with an address.
Manage Account Settings Set Up Multi-Signing
Add a signer list to your account to enable multi-signing.
Manage Account Settings Send a Multi-Signed Transaction
Send a transaction authorized with multiple signatures.
Manage Account Settings Offline Account Setup Tutorial
Set up an XRP Ledger account using an air-gapped, offline machine to store its cryptographic keys.
Use Tokens Enact Global Freeze
Freeze all tokens issued by your address.
Use Tokens Freeze a Trust Line
Freeze an individual holder of a token.
XRP Ledger Businesses Become an XRP Ledger Gateway
Gateways are the businesses that link the XRP Ledger to the rest of the world. This tutorial demonstrates how an existing online financial institution can expand to act as a gateway in the the XRP Ledger.
Install rippled Update Automatically on Linux
Set up automatic updates for rippled on Linux.
Install rippled Update Manually on CentOS/Red Hat
Manually update rippled on CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Install rippled Update Manually on Ubuntu or Debian
Manually update rippled on Ubuntu Linux.
Configure rippled Enable Public Signing
Allow others to use your server to sign transactions. (Not recommended)
Configure Peering Configure a Private Server
Set up a server to connect only to specific, trusted peers.
Configure Peering Configure the Peer Crawler
Configure how much information your rippled server reports publicly about its status and peers.

References

Ledger Object Types DepositPreauth
A record of preauthorization for sending payments to an account that requires authorization.
Ledger Object Types SignerList
A list of addresses for multi-signing transactions.
Transaction Types DepositPreauth
Preauthorizes an account to send payments to this one.
Transaction Types SetRegularKey
Add, remove, or modify an account's regular key pair.
Transaction Types SignerListSet
Add, remove, or modify an account's multi-signing list.
Path and Order Book Methods deposit_authorized
Check whether an account is authorized to send money directly to another.
Key Generation Methods validation_create
Generate keys for a rippled server to identify itself to the network.
Key Generation Methods wallet_propose
Generate keys for a new account.