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I want to save my passwords and some other personal data on a ethereum like blockchain. it seems more persistant to me. I may lose my e-mail , my pc may crush and I may lose my usb stick. But nothing will happen to a blockchain.

I will encryp it and put require(msg.sender,myaddress); to even read functions. But still is there a way someone else can retrieve these information as it would be very bad because they could just easily login to my wallets with that info and steal funds.

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    We don't need to invoke your contract functions in order to read your contract data (state variables).
    – goodvibration
    Oct 24 '20 at 17:34
  • even if they aren't public? how would you do that?
    – lazyCoding
    Oct 24 '20 at 17:50
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There is nothing secret in Ethereum blockchain. So, yes, it would be an extremely bad idea to store password there.

Even if a variable is private it only means it can't be read directly by other smart contract. But everyone outside the blockchain can get the data if they want to. There are two approaches:

  1. See what transactions the contract has received and read their data (that data can't be hidden)

  2. Analyze the contract state from your client (a lot more difficult approach)

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