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Topic: What is the best encryption for wallet.dat storage and backup? (Read 2551 times)
Yes that URL is the article, I should have quoted it as well, thx for doing that.
I know I stole your credit
Not at all sir.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you!
December 25, 2013, 02:19:50 AM
Yes that URL is the article, I should have quoted it as well, thx for doing that.
I know I stole your credit
Not at all sir.
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2013, 02:19:08 AM
Yes that URL is the article, I should have quoted it as well, thx for doing that.
I know I stole your credit
Not at all sir.
December 25, 2013, 02:17:57 AM
Yes that URL is the article, I should have quoted it as well, thx for doing that.
I know I stole your credit
December 25, 2013, 02:17:02 AM
Yes that URL is the article, I should have quoted it as well, thx for doing that.
December 25, 2013, 02:09:21 AM
December 25, 2013, 12:14:30 AM
Here's a link about the truecrypt audit:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/06/truecrypt_audit_is_go/
Summary, its not happened yet, Matthew is still in the fundraising stage
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/06/truecrypt_audit_is_go/
Summary, its not happened yet, Matthew is still in the fundraising stage
December 24, 2013, 11:47:43 AM
Truecrypt is closed source, no independent source has reviewed the code.
'nuff said.
'nuff said.
Not true. Matthew Green (you can find him on Twitter), has done a full audit, not sure if he's published results yet.
an audit done by 1 person idoesnt carry the same credability as open source code that can be examined by everyone in the world who feels like having a look to see how it works
not saying anything about Matthews credibility but hes still just 1 person so theres always the channce he missed something someone else might spot or even found something and been bribed to leave it out of the report
cant trust anything after the snowden scandal imo so id still use trucrypt but use it with a couple of other precautionary measures as well
Yes I figure that the NSA could have a backdoor in that or in PGP but less likely to have one in both of course...possible but just trying to cut down the odds of that.
December 24, 2013, 09:22:42 AM
Truecrypt is closed source, no independent source has reviewed the code.
'nuff said.
'nuff said.
Not true. Matthew Green (you can find him on Twitter), has done a full audit, not sure if he's published results yet.
an audit done by 1 person idoesnt carry the same credability as open source code that can be examined by everyone in the world who feels like having a look to see how it works
not saying anything about Matthews credibility but hes still just 1 person so theres always the channce he missed something someone else might spot or even found something and been bribed to leave it out of the report
cant trust anything after the snowden scandal imo so id still use trucrypt but use it with a couple of other precautionary measures as well
I'll try and find the details of the research he did into truecrypt. He's a stand up guy. A "Assistant Research Professor" at John Hopkins.
http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/
Knows more about the ins and outs of encryption than me and 99.9% of the people at this forum put together. His twitter is:
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green
December 24, 2013, 06:22:40 AM
Truecrypt is closed source, no independent source has reviewed the code.
'nuff said.
'nuff said.
Not true. Matthew Green (you can find him on Twitter), has done a full audit, not sure if he's published results yet.
an audit done by 1 person idoesnt carry the same credability as open source code that can be examined by everyone in the world who feels like having a look to see how it works
not saying anything about Matthews credibility but hes still just 1 person so theres always the channce he missed something someone else might spot or even found something and been bribed to leave it out of the report
cant trust anything after the snowden scandal imo so id still use trucrypt but use it with a couple of other precautionary measures as well
December 24, 2013, 05:59:27 AM
Truecrypt is closed source, no independent source has reviewed the code.
'nuff said.
'nuff said.
Not true. Matthew Green (you can find him on Twitter), has done a full audit, not sure if he's published results yet.
December 24, 2013, 05:57:40 AM
I'd stick with Truecrypt, choose a strong encryption algo with a good passphrase and you'll be fine.
If you're worried this isn't enough security create a new wallet on a clean virtual machine, send it your coins, backup and encrypt. A recovery disk is a nice option too. Your encrypted volume/container can always be opened on a clean VM whenever you like.
If you're worried this isn't enough security create a new wallet on a clean virtual machine, send it your coins, backup and encrypt. A recovery disk is a nice option too. Your encrypted volume/container can always be opened on a clean VM whenever you like.
Good idea.
December 24, 2013, 05:33:39 AM
Truecrypt is closed source, no independent source has reviewed the code.
'nuff said.
'nuff said.
December 24, 2013, 02:06:25 AM
I'd stick with Truecrypt, choose a strong encryption algo with a good passphrase and you'll be fine.
If you're worried this isn't enough security create a new wallet on a clean virtual machine, send it your coins, backup and encrypt. A recovery disk is a nice option too. Your encrypted volume/container can always be opened on a clean VM whenever you like.
If you're worried this isn't enough security create a new wallet on a clean virtual machine, send it your coins, backup and encrypt. A recovery disk is a nice option too. Your encrypted volume/container can always be opened on a clean VM whenever you like.
That would be my choice as well.
December 24, 2013, 01:16:00 AM
December 24, 2013, 12:40:31 AM
I'd stick with Truecrypt, choose a strong encryption algo with a good passphrase and you'll be fine.
If you're worried this isn't enough security create a new wallet on a clean virtual machine, send it your coins, backup and encrypt. A recovery disk is a nice option too. Your encrypted volume/container can always be opened on a clean VM whenever you like.
If you're worried this isn't enough security create a new wallet on a clean virtual machine, send it your coins, backup and encrypt. A recovery disk is a nice option too. Your encrypted volume/container can always be opened on a clean VM whenever you like.
December 23, 2013, 11:50:20 PM
I would like to encrypt my wallet.dat file on my PC and flash drive, etc. What is the best encryption to use for it? I have PGP Desktop Encryption and know about TrueCrypt as well. I guess I could use both of these together or are there other ideas. Thanks.
(And I am not considering a paper wallet, so please don't go off on a tangent about those.)
(And I am not considering a paper wallet, so please don't go off on a tangent about those.)
I use both. I used to work for a large bank encrypting hard drives and we used both.
December 23, 2013, 06:55:49 PM
Well "software keyboard" is a default featue in windows 7 so...
never had use for a virtual keyboard b4 so i was unaware of that feature in w7 lol
but anyways i would rather use the armoury version since it was designed for btc
:-)ú
Even for example KIS (Kaspersky Internet Security) has its own Software keyboard :-), and maybe other antiviruses aswell.
December 23, 2013, 03:13:43 PM
Well "software keyboard" is a default featue in windows 7 so...
never had use for a virtual keyboard b4 so i was unaware of that feature in w7 lol
but anyways i would rather use the armoury version since it was designed for btc
December 23, 2013, 02:17:59 PM
Well "software keyboard" is a default featue in windows 7 so...
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