📅 Original date posted:2011-09-13
🗒️ Summary of this message: A professional warns against storing private keys on USB keys due to the difficulty of reliably deleting sensitive data.
📝 Original message:On Sep 13, 2011 11:40 AM, "Luke-Jr" <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> Once created, they must submit the
> transaction to a staff member with the proper authority to bring it to the
> offline transaction-signing wallet (on a USB key), where it is signed, and
> returned to this third wallet.
I agreed up to this point. Private keys should not be stored on nand. Please
look in to the data recovery clusterfuck nand creates when concerning
sensitive data.
It is close to impossible to reliably delete such data, moreso on usb keys
than ssd, short of absolute physical destruction and noone should be
recommending this. Ever.
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Douglas Huff [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 02:25:06
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2023-06-07 02:25:06Event JSON
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