Armory - Discussion Thread - page 13.

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Quote from: MfJonesy on February 20, 2015, 06:00:44 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on February 16, 2015, 08:45:56 PM

Fanny problems:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/3/

Have any of the developers looked at using qr codes to transfer the signed transactions? It seems this guy has done it already on Ubuntu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlSC3mLjNSg
https://github.com/hank/armorycompanion-python

If only I was smart enough to do the same thing haha.

Technically, this is possible.
In some cases the data needed for signing is huge, up to megabytes. It would then be close to impossible to transfer via QR, and that user might be in serious trouble then. Like with many many inputs from mining, for example. Even with non-extreme but large transactions it would not be very practical.

There are several ideas how to do "airgapping" securely. How I understand it, we are waiting for addon-ability for Armory first, then these optional and sometimes controversial options would be possible.

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Hey, the Changelog page is all empty :/

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:39:29 AM

Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

Can you try the final 0.93 release? A last-minute bug that primarily (but not exclusively) affected OSX was patched this afternoon. I'm reasonably certain it'll stop your crashes. If it doesn't, file a support ticket and send us traces and logs ASAP.

Thanks!

MfJonesy

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Quote from: cypherdoc on February 16, 2015, 08:45:56 PM

Fanny problems:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/how-omnipotent-hackers-tied-to-the-nsa-hid-for-14-years-and-were-found-at-last/3/

Have any of the developers looked at using qr codes to transfer the signed transactions? It seems this guy has done it already on Ubuntu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlSC3mLjNSg
https://github.com/hank/armorycompanion-python

If only I was smart enough to do the same thing haha.

doug_armory

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Rampion, can you file a support ticket and include both your logs (armorylog.txt and armorycpplog.txt) and the stack trace that comes up when the code crashes?

In the meantime, can you try something for me? Can you create a directory called "ArmorySatoshiTest" and then run Armory from the command line? Use the following steps, with the assumption that the directory is on the desktop.

1)Open the terminal.
2)cd *Armory location*/Armory.app/Contents/MacOS
3)./Armory --satoshi-datadir="/Users/*your username*/Desktop/ArmorySatoshiTest"

This will cause the blockchain to be downloaded again. Sorry! We definitely need this step to troubleshoot what's going on, unfortunately.

Thanks!

doug_armory

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Quote from: etotheipi on February 19, 2015, 12:38:55 PM

@doug_armory: can you test this in OSX? Based on another report from earlier, this might be OSX-specific.

I've been working with goatpig on this one. Haven't figured it out just yet, although the crash is consistent. Trying to get more info.

Quote from: josephbisch on February 19, 2015, 07:20:57 PM

I see there is some work towards Python 3 support that has been started on some branches on GitHub. Is there an ETA or expected version number for Python 3 support?

No ETA yet. Just experimenting for now, although the port was even faster than I anticipated.

(BTW, it also upgrades to Qt 5.)

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I see there is some work towards Python 3 support that has been started on some branches on GitHub. Is there an ETA or expected version number for Python 3 support?

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Quote from: etotheipi on February 19, 2015, 12:38:55 PM

Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:39:29 AM

Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

How did you delete the old DB? Within Armory? Or manually deleted the folder? I just realized we probably haven't had much testing of the wipe-old-databases-and-rebuild process. A log file through our support channel would be great.

@doug_armory: can you test this in OSX? Based on another report from earlier, this might be OSX-specific.

I deleted within armory - it asked me if i was not going to downgrade, i said no, so it deleted the db.

etotheipi

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:39:29 AM

Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

How did you delete the old DB? Within Armory? Or manually deleted the folder? I just realized we probably haven't had much testing of the wipe-old-databases-and-rebuild process. A log file through our support channel would be great.

@doug_armory: can you test this in OSX? Based on another report from earlier, this might be OSX-specific.

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:58:59 AM

Quote from: goatpig on February 19, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:39:29 AM

Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

Force the dbdir to something else

how do i do that?

--dbdir="*mynewpath*"

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Quote from: goatpig on February 19, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:39:29 AM

Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

Force the dbdir to something else

how do i do that?

goatpig

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:39:29 AM

Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

Force the dbdir to something else

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Well, now I really screwed up. I updated to 0.92.99.7-testing, old database was deleted, and now armory keeps crashing as soon as it starts building databases, I tried like 6 times Sad

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Quote from: picobit on February 17, 2015, 03:01:43 AM

Quote from: etotheipi on February 16, 2015, 10:13:56 PM

That's not to say it couldn't be done on Linux or Mac ... but simply those weren't the target platforms. And this is literally the most advanced malware on the planet, so we can hope that there's a high barrier to entry to replicate this on the other OS (as I write this, I realize there's no guarantee that they haven't already...)

The only "good" thing there is to say about this in connection with Armory is that these guys are professionals with huge budgets. They are not going to expose themselves by stealing our meagre bitcoin stashes. That gives us a short respite, at least until this malware leaks into the hands of the common criminals. Who will probably mainly go after the home banking password.

Today's NSA malware is tomorrow's bitcoin thieves malware. That's a fact. We must be prepared for the worst (firmware level malware).

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Quote from: etotheipi on February 19, 2015, 11:16:07 AM

Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:00:52 AM

Don't see 0.92.99.7-testing, it says last update retrieved 4 months ago, maybe because I have my system set up to run through Tor?

EDIT: I managed to reactivate secure download by tweaking the "privacy setting", but i see 0.92.99.7 only on Windows - I'm a mac user.

Oh, the navigation system for that is a mess, and I've been meaning to rework it. Select an earlier version of OSX than the latest. You should then see it.

Yep, I see it if I select as an OSX version 10.9.4 or lower... If I select 10.10 only 0.91.2 appears (?)

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 11:00:52 AM

Don't see 0.92.99.7-testing, it says last update retrieved 4 months ago, maybe because I have my system set up to run through Tor?

EDIT: I managed to reactivate secure download by tweaking the "privacy setting", but i see 0.92.99.7 only on Windows - I'm a mac user.

Oh, the navigation system for that is a mess, and I've been meaning to rework it. Select an earlier version of OSX than the latest. You should then see it.

Rampion

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Don't see 0.92.99.7-testing, it says last update retrieved 4 months ago, maybe because I have my system set up to run through Tor?

EDIT: I managed to reactivate secure download by tweaking the "privacy setting", but i see 0.92.99.7 only on Windows - I'm a mac user.

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 10:59:06 AM

Quote from: etotheipi on February 19, 2015, 10:54:53 AM

Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 10:41:10 AM

Oops, I just updated to Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 and fired up Armory 0.92.3, it looks stuck on "building databases"... Did I screw up?

Use the secure downloader to grab 0.92.99.7-testing. It's a release candidate and should be officially renamed to 0.93 tomorrow (or latest Monday).

You'll wipe the DBs, but the rebuild is super fast! Thank goatpig for that

OK, will do that... BTW, Armory 0.92.3 finally built the database and displayed the correct balance, so I guess is somewhat compatible with BC 0.10.0

I will crash if you receive blocks out of order while it is running. It should resume properly after a restart though.

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Quote from: etotheipi on February 19, 2015, 10:54:53 AM

Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 10:41:10 AM

Oops, I just updated to Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 and fired up Armory 0.92.3, it looks stuck on "building databases"... Did I screw up?

Use the secure downloader to grab 0.92.99.7-testing. It's a release candidate and should be officially renamed to 0.93 tomorrow (or latest Monday).

You'll wipe the DBs, but the rebuild is super fast! Thank goatpig for that

OK, will do that... BTW, Armory 0.92.3 finally built the database and displayed the correct balance, so I guess is somewhat compatible with BC 0.10.0

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Quote from: Rampion on February 19, 2015, 10:41:10 AM

Oops, I just updated to Bitcoin Core 0.10.0 and fired up Armory 0.92.3, it looks stuck on "building databases"... Did I screw up?

Use the secure downloader to grab 0.92.99.7-testing. It's a release candidate and should be officially renamed to 0.93 tomorrow (or latest Monday).

You'll wipe the DBs, but the rebuild is super fast! Thank goatpig for that

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