To facilitate you to back up mnemonic phrase, ViaWallet supports mnemonic phrase backup encryption. You need to set and save your mnemonic phrase password when conducting backup, and save the ciphertext QR code. For importing wallet, both of password and QR code are required.
The mnemonic phrase password consists of 8 to 32 characters set by yourselves, which is used for secondary encryption of the mnemonic phrase.
The ciphertext QR code is generated by encrypting the mnemonic phrase with the above password.
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