Topic: Important advice: store your keys on a secure medium, not online in a cloud - page 2. (Read 259 times)

Do not do anything fancy with your seed.

Simple keep it in an old good piece of paper. Make another backup, keep them in separate places if you can. Hide them. That is all you need.

No need for fancy materials or crazy methods...

I can't help but think that the easiest way a crypto newbie will want to keep their keys is by taking screenshot of the recovery seed.

This is very common coming from someone who have teach a lot about crypto to beginners, they do this easily thinking it's safe, whereas it is not, I believe this advice should be on your list OP.

Majority of crypto wallets are not allowing users to take screenshots, but we all know that there is other ways around forcefully taking screenshot of your phone this days, taking pictures of your seed phrases is a bad idea, because whatever clean or dirty stuffs you have on your phone can easily be leaked.

It's actually a good strategy and it can't be overemphasized. We most times only talk about keys being compromised probably if being stored online or being exposed to the Internet. But then, our keys which had been stored offline locally might also be damaged or lost due to physical phenomenon. In countries where natural disasters is a thing, storing keys in different locations should be a good strategy as one cannot be too prepared for what might happen next. The 3,2,1 strategy is a good one and I myself also recommend using it.

Yes, in my opinion it would be a good strategy but it also depends on your locations if it's safe to store a copy at such locations so it all depends on each individual if such locations are easy and safe to store copies of our keys at.

I was wondering... do you think that it would be a good idea to apply the 3-2-1 backup strategy for your keys?

For those not familiar with this strategy, it consists in three copies of your data, in two different media, and one of them off-site. As this info is critical, more copies will minimise the risk of losing the keys, but also increase the chances that some will fall into the wrong hands, especially if you keep one copy off-site.

Additional information to take serious regarding this, you don't have to make use of a password manager for keeping your keys safe, likewise you have to be sensitive on anything that involves using a network or system that permit for the use of a central server, from there is where all users informations can be fetched and taken.

Here are good medium in which you can choose to store your keys.

Storing seed phrase with washers
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/securing-your-seed-phrase-with-washers-5389446

Seeds backup tools
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-bitcoin-seed-backup-tools-5263482

Additional security to your seed phrase
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/crypto-security-additional-protection-for-your-seedprivate-keys-5230920

When saving your keys, it is very important to select a good medium, where your coins will be stored on. As we know, keys are most important for us to keep access to our coins, so we should carefully consider where we store our keys at.

Good mediums to store your keys at can be an offline paper, where you keep it in a safe location and protect it against light, humidity and fire and you will be safe to still have access to it for a very long time.

Don’t store your keys online in a cloud

We often hear about people recommending to store our coins is a cloud like Google Drive, Dropbox or similar.
It is not recommended to store our keys online in a cloud like Google Drive, Dropbox or similar because it can happen very easily when someone gets access to your account or data is leaked because it is simply only stored in a cloud, where access to it means your keys can be obtained by someone else.
Online mediums are just not safe to story any sort of accessing passwords because data can be leaked too easily.

Don’t store your keys too messy / always have a strategy to store your keys

It is important to keep an overview of your keys between your normal passwords and where you send it. Don’t mess it up because a mess is always a difficulty, when you are searching a certain password or keys and it is always recommended to have a good overview and a good saving strategy, where you will be able to find your passwords and keys again.


Duration for saving is key

As for any safe location, duration is key and we should always select a durable version of storing our keys at. It is not recommended to store our keys quick but trashy and we should also not rely only on memory of our keys as well as we should avoid any cloud version to store our coins at. Such cloud space can be hacked or leaked easily and our coins are in big danger.