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Johnathan Corgan
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An ephemeral node wrote the private key of an identity it discards on every restart to fips.key, and overwrote any key already at that path, including an operator's key in the case where persistent: true was forgotten. It now writes only fips.pub, so the running npub stays visible, and holds the private key in memory only. A fips.key found at an ephemeral start is moved aside to fips.key.unused with a warning rather than used or overwritten, so an operator's key is recoverable and a stale key from an earlier release stops being read by fipsctl address. If that name is already taken or the rename fails, the file is left in place, a warning says so, and the start continues. Persistent and explicit-nsec identities are unchanged. The keygen note, the Windows service installer's closing note, and the documentation that described the old write are corrected, including the persistent identity how-to, which told operators to start once in ephemeral mode and then pin the key it wrote.