Topic: Bootable USB Linux for creating paper wallets (Read 1404 times)
I boot from a USB on my Mac mini. As said above it just takes a little know how.
If you use a Mac you can't boot from an USB, you have to boot from a CD.
Sure you can. I have a late 2013 macbook pro retina, double boot set up with OSX and linux, and I boot to USB often for various tasks including paper wallet creation.
Just use rEFIND, the boot menu tool for EFI based machines (forked from rEFI after that project stopped development):
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
If you use a Mac you can't boot from an USB, you have to boot from a CD.
Tell that to people who have a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro Retina....
as for your question, if you are not going to connect it to the internet anymore, meaning, permanently offline, then it doesn't matter whether it's linux or windows. I'd also make sure to remove any wi-fi chip off the computer too.
Um why?
Don't bring up the wifi interface. Don't bring up any network interface.
It's fairly simple to create a bootable usb stick with linux using http://www.pendrivelinux.com/. I'm not sure how this compares to creating paper wallets on fresh, offline install of windows, but wouldn't it be pretty safe? Basically you're booting into a fresh OS (assuming) with no internet connection. Then you can just run the bitaddress.org html file from the usb or your hard drive and print the wallets. Is this a good idea or no?
Perfect practice as since it is a flash drive based boot, there's no risk in leaking the private key to the Internet from a machine that at some point after the creation of the key connects to the Internet again.
If you use a Mac you can't boot from an USB, you have to boot from a CD.
as for your question, if you are not going to connect it to the internet anymore, meaning, permanently offline, then it doesn't matter whether it's linux or windows. I'd also make sure to remove any wi-fi chip off the computer too.
paper wallets is not the best way to pay and store, if we can remember it in our mind, that's is really good!
Maybe not, but try remembering 5, 10 or more brain wallets! Do you trust memory that much? What happens when you die and nobody can ever retrieve the funds because you were the only one who knew the passphrase?
Before dinner, instead of praying, make all family members repeat the passphrase
Might as well use a more secure platform such as TAILS for same amount of work.
It's fairly simple to create a bootable usb stick with linux using http://www.pendrivelinux.com/. I'm not sure how this compares to creating paper wallets on fresh, offline install of windows, but wouldn't it be pretty safe? Basically you're booting into a fresh OS (assuming) with no internet connection. Then you can just run the bitaddress.org html file from the usb or your hard drive and print the wallets. Is this a good idea or no?
Yes, that's exactly what I do whenever i want to create a safe "cold storage" address. I have learned it from here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet
I have even used a tails pendrive once, and it worked fine with a bitaddress.org html file, as you have described.
thanks!
paper wallets is not the best way to pay and store, if we can remember it in our mind, that's is really good!
Maybe not, but try remembering 5, 10 or more brain wallets! Do you trust memory that much? What happens when you die and nobody can ever retrieve the funds because you were the only one who knew the passphrase?
paper wallets is not the best way to pay and store, if we can remember it in our mind, that's is really good!
I agree, but having a passphrase you can remember that also has enough entropy and isn't vulnerable to rainbow attacks requires sophistication.
paper wallets is not the best way to pay and store, if we can remember it in our mind, that's is really good!
It's fairly simple to create a bootable usb stick with linux using http://www.pendrivelinux.com/. I'm not sure how this compares to creating paper wallets on fresh, offline install of windows, but wouldn't it be pretty safe? Basically you're booting into a fresh OS (assuming) with no internet connection. Then you can just run the bitaddress.org html file from the usb or your hard drive and print the wallets. Is this a good idea or no?
Yes, that's exactly what I do whenever i want to create a safe "cold storage" address. I have learned it from here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet
I have even used a tails pendrive once, and it worked fine with a bitaddress.org html file, as you have described.
It's fairly simple to create a bootable usb stick with linux using http://www.pendrivelinux.com/. I'm not sure how this compares to creating paper wallets on fresh, offline install of windows, but wouldn't it be pretty safe? Basically you're booting into a fresh OS (assuming) with no internet connection. Then you can just run the bitaddress.org html file from the usb or your hard drive and print the wallets. Is this a good idea or no?
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