We are still in quarantine and to avoid going out we watch movies or series to entertain ourselves.
A friend recommended me to watch Prison Break telling it was an excellent series, and so I did.
Season 2 Episode 7-8 Origami Codes from Scofield to Dr. Sara Tancredi being decoded.
It hit me that perhaps we could use this to hide our seed phrases for addition of security.
Let's start.
Seeds are phrases mostly so it could also be coded with the use of dots.
Requirements: An old phone. Turn off dictionary or autofill.You will need numbers to assign where it would be pressed.
Let's use the one applied in the series as an example.
7 3 6 3 3 9 8 6 8 7 -
the keys... .. .. . .. .... ... ... .. ....
3 2 2 1 2 4 3 3 2 4 -
the amount of press for each key R E N D E Z V O U S
For our seeds, we need 12 words which will be a lot of codes.
We could just simplify it.
Example:
5...6...9...2.5... =
loyal3.3..7....5.. =
desk2..4...5..3.. = ?
7...3..7....6...8..7...2...3.. = ?
And so on...
Its old school and new hackers will have a problem breaking it. I hope.
It could also be used for private keys.
How will we input a number? Try this: 2....0..3.... = 203 (when you press "0" once it will be space)
How about big letters? Try this: #2..#2.#4.
Let's try combining them.
2....#2..3...4....0..9.....#8. = 2Bf409T
The only problem left is number 1.
We could use 1=1Using the same example above we will add "1's" just to show it.
12....#2..3...4....0..19.....#8.
Since there is no 12 or 19 in our keypads you just drop the "1's".12Bf4019T
Note: Be careful putting the dots.
I made errors while doing this just my missing 1 dot.
Double or triple check it if necessary.
It's not bad when you have your own idea in hiding your seeds and private keys, but I am not in favor in using an old phone. You know why? It's because it may be vulnerable to system corrupt and it lets you force to do factory reset data.
Trust me, I've been there. My phone was corrupted and some of my seed phrases and private keys are there and cannot be recovered. Luckily, I have activated Google Cloud drive to back them up before it happened. But still, it's not a good idea to store them in a phone.
For me, it's still writing them on a piece of paper or notebook in exact order and put it somewhere safe. Not just one paper though, make sure you have a few pieces of that with your private keys or seed phrases.
I usually wanna do more than one piece of paper with private keys and seed phrases, because if something happens to me later on, at least they can be a family inheritance. You know what I mean?
