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1982dre

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Quote from: cr1776 on January 09, 2017, 03:34:53 PM

Quote from: 1982dre on January 09, 2017, 02:00:42 PM

Just make a paper wallet at bitaddress.org. there you can make a paper wallet with BIP38. With this you need to set a password which encrypt the private key. So you just see the private key but without password it's useless.

If you are really concerned about security, download they bitaddress.org web site from GitHub (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org) and then run it while offline and in private mode on the browser - at minimum. Quit the browser after running it. Maybe even run it from a new user account on the machine. (Or from a USB boot device that is only used off-line.)

There are ways that are even more safe, but it is not recommend to do it online for obvious reasons.

If i make them i always use a Ubuntu Live CD without Internet Connection. Then I am 100% sure know one has see what I made.

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I would try encrypting the wallet with PGP if possible (of course you would need a scanner or something to read the PGP message from paper, or just save the PGP message on usb stick or something).
So if you do not mind doing some of those things, i would use PGP and store the PGP private key somewhere else. Here is a good tutorial on how to use PGP for starters: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/11/11/pgp-tutorial-for-newbs-gpg4win/

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Quote from: 1982dre on January 09, 2017, 02:00:42 PM

Just make a paper wallet at bitaddress.org. there you can make a paper wallet with BIP38. With this you need to set a password which encrypt the private key. So you just see the private key but without password it's useless.

If you are really concerned about security, download they bitaddress.org web site from GitHub (https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org) and then run it while offline and in private mode on the browser - at minimum. Quit the browser after running it. Maybe even run it from a new user account on the machine. (Or from a USB boot device that is only used off-line.)

There are ways that are even more safe, but it is not recommend to do it online for obvious reasons.

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If I amn't wrong, you can encrypt your private key by BIP38. BIP38 is a standard process to encrypt Bitcoin and crypto currency private keys, it's most secure way for me. Also remember this warning: first do a test make sure you are able to decrypt the printed private key back to ordinary WIF format.
P.S use website which 1982dre wroted.

1982dre

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Just make a paper wallet at bitaddress.org. there you can make a paper wallet with BIP38. With this you need to set a password which encrypt the private key. So you just see the private key but without password it's useless.

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everything that i can find online is about encrypting the wallet file but i am looking for how i can encrypt my private key or seed because i want to print it on a paper and i don't want my private key or seed be easily readable by anyone who looks at it.

what can i do?

I am using Electrum as my wallet, so if possible first explain how to do it there

but i do not care, i can use any other wallet or tool as long as they are trusted.

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