What is the Account Secret Tab on Toast App?

[Livinglife]

If someone will share that would be perfect! Thanks!

[Guest]

Ripple accounts are composed of two parts: a public address that people send XRP to and a "secret" that allows you to send the XRP from your address to somewhere else. If you want to move your account to another wallet you can export your secret using that tab.

[pftq]

The secret key is basically your password for your Ripple account.  Because it's not a password you can customize or set, it is useful to be able to recover or show it in case you forget to write it down.  However, it's easy to become suspicious about the wallet provider stealing your key or storing them.  Most wallets, to show they do not and cannot do this, put a tab that requires extra input from you to "re-calculate" the key so it's clear they do not just store and spit it back out to you.

[Guest]

On 8/20/2017 at 5:52 AM, pftq said:

The secret key is basically your password for your Ripple account.  Because it's not a password you can customize or set, it is useful to be able to recover or show it in case you forget to write it down.  However, it's easy to become suspicious about the wallet provider stealing your key or storing them.  Most wallets, to show they do not and cannot do this, put a tab that requires extra input from you to "re-calculate" the key so it's clear they do not just store and spit it back out to you.

It is actually possible to re-key your Ripple account if the secret is compromised.