Simple way to secure THE Seed - page 2.

BooToo

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Quote from: shorena on November 30, 2016, 03:33:13 PM

The problem with this method is that its easy to test. Lets say someone finds a phone like yours and has read this thread. How many numbers do they have to combine to get all your coins? 100? 200? 500? The 4th and 8th to last numbers are always 0,1 or 2. This makes these numbers likely stand out or at the very least should vastly reduce the combinations to test. Its just as secure as your phone is and I personally consider phones as insecure.

Everybody has a phone book (paper or electronic) but only few have an Electrum (or other) Wallet with the famous "Seed", so a thief visiting my car or home or office will probably find something more interesting than my phone book, and if, he has to choose the 6 rights phone numbers among the more than 200 of mine... good luck ( because naturally he knows that there is a seed hidden in the list)

I can keep cool, for sure if he find the same phone book in my safe case close to my bank notes and credit cards , his interest for my Friends will increase Grin

shorena

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No I dont escrow anymore.

The problem with this method is that its easy to test. Lets say someone finds a phone like yours and has read this thread. How many numbers do they have to combine to get all your coins? 100? 200? 500? The 4th and 8th to last numbers are always 0,1 or 2. This makes these numbers likely stand out or at the very least should vastly reduce the combinations to test. Its just as secure as your phone is and I personally consider phones as insecure.

BooToo

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Not in a safe box or other technical device with many locks, but simply hidden where nobody could imagine there’s something precious to discover :

My way is to hide the seed among phone numbers

The whole list is public https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/wordlist/english.txt easy to find anywhere as soon as you're connected

Each word has a number between 0001 and 2048 ( I use the number with 4 digits)

For example (only 6 words) 1613 sister 0003 able 0832 gun 0558 eat 0242 bullet 0082 any

Then I add 3 new friends in my address book (paper or electronic ‘s one) with their phone number: In my coutry the phone numbers are 10 digits long.

The last 8 digits of each phone number are 2 words (4 +4)

Jane 01 16 13 00 03 Peter 01 08 32 05 58 Steve 01 02 42 00 82 (in alphabetical order )
My address book in my pocket or laptop or smartphone, and anywhere I can access to the list, I am able to rewrite this damned seed within minuts
A list of phone numbers is much more easy to be “anonymous” than a sequence of words which can hardly look like a sentence.

Hope it could be helpful.

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