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beckspace

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Quote from: kneim on September 03, 2012, 07:24:25 AM

My problem at this time is: How can I transfer the wallet password (with description) to my relatives in case of death of me and my girlfriend (through accident, for example).

Mine too, and I've been thinking about a scheme (see post above) that reveal the private keys only after the fact, not before.

But I don't have enough knowledge about nLocktime to do this slickly.

mufa23

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I'd fight Gandhi.

Quote from: aneutronic on September 03, 2012, 07:04:46 AM

Quote from: mufa23 on September 03, 2012, 03:35:39 AM

Inside a faraday cage in-case an EMP fucks the US.

Also on MicroSD, CD, Floppy, other HDD, and a few other places.

Excellent advice about using a faraday cage, the first time anyone has mentioned this in all the security threads I've seen.

Paper wallets would also be good protection against this.

Just a quick note, but sort of on topic. You can use your microwave as a sort of quick faraday cage. They're built to keep microwaves inside, but also work at keeping a wide range of other frequencies out. So if you need quick protection, you can throw some electronics in it, and it might work depending on your situation.

Vanity

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Most recently /dev/null - gladly it was just 0.001 BTC, but need to be more careful from now on

sippsnapp

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Got my wallet on different hdd`s - no flash drives (had a flashdrive with important data which wasnt accessable after 1 year, so hdd`s only for backup)

kneim

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First I have created a number of keys in my wallet, as place holder for later use.

Second I encrypted my wallet with a strong password. It's against theft.

Then I saved the wallet file on at least 3 USB sticks, and distributed them over different locations. It's against damage or destruction.

If I wished to use clouds, I would use truecrypt also.

My problem at this time is: How can I transfer the wallet password (with description) to my relatives in case of death of me and my girlfriend (through accident, for example).

aneutronic

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Quote from: mufa23 on September 03, 2012, 03:35:39 AM

Inside a faraday cage in-case an EMP fucks the US.

Also on MicroSD, CD, Floppy, other HDD, and a few other places.

Excellent advice about using a faraday cage, the first time anyone has mentioned this in all the security threads I've seen.

Paper wallets would also be good protection against this.

mufa23

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I'd fight Gandhi.

Inside a faraday cage in-case an EMP fucks the US.

Also on MicroSD, CD, Floppy, other HDD, and a few other places.

anexsia

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Quote from: Kazimir on September 03, 2012, 02:21:25 AM

Quote from: anexsia on September 02, 2012, 10:33:26 PM

I haven't accumulated that many bitcoins yet though so I'm not super protective of it...

Be careful though. Suppose someone would manage to copy it, they got your private keys (even for future addresses, if you use the default Bitcoin-Qt client).
So even if there's not much money on there yet, they just may be waiting patiently. Once you have accumulated a truckload of coins, they may decide it's time to cash out, aaaaand -poof- it's gone

Thanks for the advice

You're right, I'll have to figure out a better way to secure it so I've been reading some of the helpful guides here. On a side note, someone would be waiting forever to swoop in and take them at the rate I'm mining Grin

beckspace

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Quote from: Kazimir on September 03, 2012, 02:22:13 AM

Quote from: beckspace on September 03, 2012, 02:19:39 AM

Thrusted third-person timelock strategy in case of amnesia, abduction or death.

How did you set this up?

Rudimentary, but it works:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.553632

Quote from: Kazimir on September 03, 2012, 02:22:13 AM

Quote from: beckspace on September 03, 2012, 02:19:39 AM

Thinking in a secure way of applying SSSS for a brainwallet seed.

What's that Huh

(I mean the SSSS thing)

Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/demo.html

Kazimir

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Quote from: beckspace on September 03, 2012, 02:19:39 AM

Thrusted third-person timelock strategy in case of amnesia, abduction or death.

How did you set this up?

Quote

Thinking in a secure way of applying SSSS for a brainwallet seed.

What's that Huh

(I mean the SSSS thing)

Kazimir

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Quote from: anexsia on September 02, 2012, 10:33:26 PM

I haven't accumulated that many bitcoins yet though so I'm not super protective of it...

Be careful though. Suppose someone would manage to copy it, they got your private keys (even for future addresses, if you use the default Bitcoin-Qt client).
So even if there's not much money on there yet, they just may be waiting patiently. Once you have accumulated a truckload of coins, they may decide it's time to cash out, aaaaand -poof- it's gone

beckspace

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Encrypted copies in two different continents. Thrusted third-person timelock strategy in case of amnesia, abduction or death. No safe boxes or vaults.

Thinking in a secure way of applying SSSS for a brainwallet seed.

Film_Girl

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Daily encrypted backup to USB, Dropbox and S3.

phantomcircuit

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Bank vault

firefop

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On flash chip, which has copies of my 'can't lose' documents and media on it.

Also a paper copy in the safe.

anexsia

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I store mine on a USB drive...I haven't accumulated that many bitcoins yet though so I'm not super protective of it...more worried about my Windows install getting messed up so that's why I back it up to a thumb drive.

every1pewps

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Second hard drive, couple different flash drives, and a netbook that I keep at my friend's house just in case mine burns down Cry

. Flash drives and netbook are stored as Truecrypt volumes. Don't keep your wallets hosted at a cloud/dropbox unless it's encrypted/hidden or some shady admin will just take it.

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GPG encrypted (TrueCrypt isn't really meant for single files), on an external hard drive, several flash drives, my camera, my dumbphone, my email account, and a good old-fashioned 3.5" DS/HD floppy disk. These devices are all stored in various physical locations. I'm not taking any chances.

Kazimir

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On a truecrypt drive. And I backup the truecrypt container frequently, on multiple online locations (dropbox, an FTP server, several webmail addresses, etc).

Akka

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Second disk, once a week with my auto backup.

Why? I'm just to lazy to do more and it seems save enough.

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