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Topic: Reveal private key feature, is it too problematic? (Read 762 times)

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I miss a functionality to expose the private key, in a qr code so I can import it to my mobile wallet (I use mycelium).

I prefer to generate my addresses using multibit because I'm skeptical about the entropy sources used by android wallets. Indeed this has already materialized itself into a vulnerability into android bitcoin wallet.

I understand that this is not there because the client philosophy is to hide non-necessary potentially dangerous-if-misused features. In other words, there is some idiot-proofing. There is nothing wrong with that. But I feel that it comes at a bit too high price for more tech savy users.

Would a "show private key" feature be something for future versions of multibit? All the necessary pieces are already there.

There are many online services for generation QR code but I prefer and use this program because I don't like my private key to be in the net - http://www.quickmark.com.tw/en/basic/downloadPC.asp - this is excellent application who can read from file or from camera and generate QR and bar codes.
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Activity: 194
Merit: 100
I miss a functionality to expose the private key, in a qr code so I can import it to my mobile wallet (I use mycelium).

I prefer to generate my addresses using multibit because I'm skeptical about the entropy sources used by android wallets. Indeed this has already materialized itself into a vulnerability into android bitcoin wallet.

I understand that this is not there because the client philosophy is to hide non-necessary potentially dangerous-if-misused features. In other words, there is some idiot-proofing. There is nothing wrong with that. But I feel that it comes at a bit too high price for more tech savy users.

Would a "show private key" feature be something for future versions of multibit? All the necessary pieces are already there.
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