Topic: New Wallet Service: brainwallet.io (Read 525 times)
Project's main thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--1160038
Surely when informed people create passwords they are reliable but as bitcoin becomes mainstream, more people who have no knowledge of creating password will get bruteforced.
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AtteJ
Use foreign words with a misspelling. Or words you made up when you were a kid. Or a product code from your business. The middle name of your g/f (b/f) in high school. Etc. The site has an option for "salting", apparently that makes it harder for anyone else to decrypt.
dserrano
I am not enough of an expert (not close) to adequately reply. IIRC the site says that your browser runs the scrypt, but, hey I don't know. I don't care about the image, it's a prairie dog... Or can just use passwords as just above.
AtteJ
Use foreign words with a misspelling. Or words you made up when you were a kid. Or a product code from your business. The middle name of your g/f (b/f) in high school. Etc. The site has an option for "salting", apparently that makes it harder for anyone else to decrypt.
dserrano
I am not enough of an expert (not close) to adequately reply. IIRC the site says that your browser runs the scrypt, but, hey I don't know. I don't care about the image, it's a prairie dog... Or can just use passwords as just above.
a photo I had taken (not on the Internet anywhere).
Well, now it's on the internet somewhere. Can't you do a sha256sum of it locally? Do you really need to surrender the image to a 3rd party?
I've heard that brainwallets are rather easy to bruteforce. If some people use words like mycat123.
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I tried it out last night. Both by putting in eight passwords and some "salt" as well as a photo I had taken (not on the Internet anywhere).
brainwallet.io
I was impressed. His code is at GitHub for programmers to see & check (which I cannot as I cannot program).
People who know a lot about private keys (and relevant) are more than welcome to comment, as I am not in a position to recommend out how robust his encryption (re making wallets securely) is.
Pro Tip for beginners (like me): Make a small donation to him, and he will explain things...
I tried it out last night. Both by putting in eight passwords and some "salt" as well as a photo I had taken (not on the Internet anywhere).
brainwallet.io
I was impressed. His code is at GitHub for programmers to see & check (which I cannot as I cannot program).
People who know a lot about private keys (and relevant) are more than welcome to comment, as I am not in a position to recommend out how robust his encryption (re making wallets securely) is.
Pro Tip for beginners (like me): Make a small donation to him, and he will explain things...
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