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Topic: Deterministic Bitcoin wallet generator, using a FILE (Read 2951 times)

legendary
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May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage
Every not common, binary file will bring huge security
Or that movie you made with an ex-girlfriend long ago....

That gives a whole new meaning to "private  key".


 Maybe it should be called privates key instead......
You won 1 internet sir Wink
full member
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Every not common, binary file will bring huge security
Or that movie you made with an ex-girlfriend long ago....

That gives a whole new meaning to "private  key".


 Maybe it should be called privates key instead......
legendary
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May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage
Every not common, binary file will bring huge security

Except that the thief could then either dl every non-common file or run the program on your machine relative to it. I think I would only do this if the file were on a removable drive. But then there's the chance of losing the file.

A passphrase is still the best option, imo.
I don't think he will download my 1k+ photos, and my 2TB external drive full of musics and films
With a 100MB file, it takes 5 seconds to calculate one private key


Use a 700MB movie, start at key number "your birthday+your phone number"/"your credit card number*your age"/"whatever" instead of 0, and nobody will never ever find your private key
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Every not common, binary file will bring huge security

Except that the thief could then either dl every non-common file or run the program on your machine relative to it. I think I would only do this if the file were on a removable drive. But then there's the chance of losing the file.

A passphrase is still the best option, imo.
hero member
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Every not common, binary file will bring huge security

Like a family picture. Or that movie you made with an ex-girlfriend long ago....
legendary
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i didnt use the google logo to make a wallet
It's not recommended obviously Wink
Using a short text file is also a bad idea

Every not common, binary file will bring huge security
hero member
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Interesting concept. Thanks for sharing Smiley
sr. member
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i didnt use the google logo to make a wallet
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Cool, thanks mate.
legendary
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May Bitcoin be touched by his Noodly Appendage
Hi,
If you want to have a deterministic wallet but are afraid of forgetting your passphrase, you can now use one of your file to create your wallet
Moreover, a thief will have to check every file on your computer to find your generated keys

Download Fillet and run "./fillet.py --file ~/me.png --keynumber 1 --size 10 --pwpath ~/bitcoin/pywallet/"
All flags are optional except --file

Pywallet is used to convert your key to a Bitcoin address

When you will want to import a key, pywallet will do that easily
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