Hi All,
Just posting for some advice on a secure offline wallet I am attempting.
It should go without saying that my aims with creating this 'wallet' are the following:
- secure and closed system
- portability
- multiple backups
- redundant as in not reliable on any particular peice of hardware (or, hopefully software)
- encrypted
My method has been basically as follows:
- small Xubuntu install (3.7GB approx.)
- OS is installed on a Virtual Box platform (I will be keeping copies of the version it is installed on in case of any future incompatabilities)
- disk setup as encrypted LVM
- home directory is also encrypted
- disk encryption and home directory encryption are different passwords
- neither of these passwords are used anywhere else
- all unnecessary software removed (this means pretty much everything except default utilities and the bitcoin client)
- VM's and backups will be stored on multiple USBs and on my fileserver(secure vlan'd/firewalled/acl'd network, ubuntu server box, virtualisation turned off in the bios)
I would love for people to critique what I have mentioned above and give me advice or point out anything I may have missed.
I also have a question regarding the bitcoin.conf file and the keypool value.
Is there a way I can check the value I set has been updated?
My bitcoin.conf file was created by me and I only added the line 'keypool=200'
Is that right, and is that an appropriate/valid amount for the system I am proposing?
Thanks,
JG