How is DPR securing his wallets from the Feds? - page 3.

crazy_rabbit

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Quote from: Dabs on November 09, 2013, 11:12:08 PM

12, 15, 20, 24, 32, 64. The longer you can memorize, the better. 20 words looks good for a passphrase.

I used to be able to memorize 32 characters, alphanumeric, letters, numbers and a few symbols.

I think the past tense "used" is particularly poignent when it comes to passwords. I think thats as good as saying, "I used to have some bitcoins".

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Dabs

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12, 15, 20, 24, 32, 64. The longer you can memorize, the better. 20 words looks good for a passphrase.

I used to be able to memorize 32 characters, alphanumeric, letters, numbers and a few symbols.

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Quote from: MysteryMiner on November 09, 2013, 09:22:09 PM

good random password on standard wallet.dat file. It was designed (successfully at second try) to be secure against hackers trying brute forcing password. FBI computer forensic shitholes are lesser adversary when facing technical challenge.

I wonder how many characters long his password was.

Come to think of it, what is generally accepted as a good minimum length of primary password for a wallet.dat file?

bg002h

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uh....not all that well....who knows, maybe they ~150k bitcoins they got were his whole stash.

Dabs

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If you back up a brain wallet, it is no longer a brain wallet. It becomes a paper wallet or at least something cold storage.

If I were operating something like SR (and not even, just because you can do it even if you have a legit business), I would simply have paper wallets securely hidden where only I know where they are.

The bitcoin address and public keys would be out there (you need public keys for a watch-only clone wallet), but the private key would be safe and offline.

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good random password on standard wallet.dat file. It was designed (successfully at second try) to be secure against hackers trying brute forcing password. FBI computer forensic shitholes are lesser adversary when facing technical challenge.

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if he's not the DPR, then why did they bust him and get ahold of millions of dollars worth of coins? maybe there have been multiple DPRs in the past, but he's at the very least one of them.

if he were smart, he would spread his coins around.. some saved as .dat files, others on the cloud like blockchain.info, and then some brain wallets as well. it remains to be seen that he was really smart, so who knows? only he does, i guess.

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Easy he's not the real DPR

theecoinomist

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Okay, I actually thought he had encrypted a his wallet file with a really strong password, anyways, what is a proper way to 'back-up' a brainwallet? (my knowledge concerning brainwallets are limited)

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Very long and complex brain wallets

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^^ Encryption? Brainwallet? Please elaborate as I'm kinda of a newb regarding the technical part of things..

Also, what do you consider as bulletproof security regarding wallets?

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