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phantomcircuit [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: šŸ“… Original date posted:2011-06-16 šŸ—’ļø Summary of this message: Experts suggest ...

šŸ“… Original date posted:2011-06-16
šŸ—’ļø Summary of this message: Experts suggest air-gapped wallets to improve Bitcoin wallet security, but an insecure PC remains a major vulnerability. Scratch off branch with email and password is a better solution.
šŸ“ Original message:On 06/16/11 20:18, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Thursday, June 16, 2011 1:59:56 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> 2) Wallet security.
>> Agreed, though security professionals (and luke-jr) are already
>> pointing out the wallet crypto mainly eliminates a bit of bad PR,
>> rather than being a major crime deterrent.
>>
>> zooko on IRC had a pretty good suggestion: introduce a built-in
>> facility for air-gapped wallets (multiple wallets), so that loss of
>> your everyday transactional wallet does not mean loss of everything.
> Even if you do this, a cracker can still simply send your encrypted wallet to
> himself, secure-delete your local one, kill your client, and demand you
> publish your password if you want some portion of your coins back.
>
> I'm not sure there's *any* defense for an insecure PC. Maybe Bitcoin will end
> up forcing people to reconsider their priorities when it comes to security...
Jeff's scratch off branch modified to use email (as unique salt) and
password would eliminate the need for a static wallet.dat for 99% of the
userbase. This seems like a much better solution than encryption.
(Although obviously it's still vulnerable to key loggers).
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