This PR is a first step towards removing account management from geth,
and contains a lot of the user-facing changes.
With this PR, the `personal` namespace disappears. **Note**: `personal`
namespace has been deprecated for quite some time (since
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/26390 1 year and 8 months
ago), and users who have wanted to use it has been forced to used the
flag `--rpc.enabledeprecatedpersonal`. So I think it's fairly
non-controversial to drop it at this point.
Specifically, this means:
- Account/wallet listing
-`personal.getListAccounts`
-`personal.listAccounts`
-`personal.getListWallets`
-`personal.listWallets`
- Lock/unlock
-`personal.lockAccount`
-`personal.openWallet`
-`personal.unlockAccount`
- Sign ops
-`personal.sign`
-`personal.sendTransaction`
-`personal.signTransaction`
- Imports / inits
-`personal.deriveAccount`
-`personal.importRawKey`
-`personal.initializeWallet`
-`personal.newAccount`
-`personal.unpair`
- Other:
-`personal.ecRecover`
The underlying keystores and account managent code is still in place,
which means that `geth --dev` still works as expected, so that e.g. the
example below still works:
```
> eth.sendTransaction({data:"0x6060", value: 1, from:eth.accounts[0]})
```
Also, `ethkey` and `clef` are untouched.
With the removal of `personal`, as far as I know we have no more API
methods which contain credentials, and if we want to implement
logging-capabilities of RPC ingress payload, it would be possible after
this.
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
Martin HS
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