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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Service Discussion (Altcoins) => Topic started by: tyz on June 22, 2015, 06:17:59 PM



Title: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: tyz on June 22, 2015, 06:17:59 PM
i am using bkchain.org wallet for litecoin and peercoin storage since a couple of days. The service is great but i am wondering how secure the wallet and the technology behind the service is?
What do you think?


Title: Re: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: bathrobehero on June 22, 2015, 06:20:17 PM
I personally wouldn't trust any web wallet with significant amount of money worth of coins long term.


Title: Re: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: tyz on June 22, 2015, 06:34:04 PM
Agree. Usually, i don't trust online wallets too. When i got the technology right, the wallet is 100% client-side and the private keys never leave your browser. But how secure is the mechanism?

I personally wouldn't trust any web wallet with significant amount of money worth of coins long term.


Title: Re: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: twister on June 22, 2015, 07:31:33 PM
This is the claim they seem to make:

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Secure & Private

100% client-side wallet.

Private keys never leave your browser.

No data is stored on server.

But one can never be sure of these things, no web wallet can be fully trusted.


Title: Re: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: bathrobehero on June 22, 2015, 07:58:14 PM
This is the claim they seem to make:

Quote
Secure & Private

100% client-side wallet.

Private keys never leave your browser.

No data is stored on server.

But one can never be sure of these things, no web wallet can be fully trusted.


Malicious wallets can grab browser data even if you run it in a sandbox if the browser's user data folder is not set to be restricted. Phone 2FA for exchanges help with that but a browser alone - to me at least - is not convincing to trust it with significant amounts. I'm not trying to take away anything from them but just because the private key doesn't leave your computer doesn't mean there aren't other critical points that can be compromised.

I only trust MultiBit. It doesn't have autoupdate feature so it can't go rogue with a pushed update but a website can always change.

And as I was trying to check the site I've got "Backend server connection error".


Title: Re: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: trinaldao on June 23, 2015, 02:45:04 AM
i am using bkchain.org wallet for litecoin and peercoin storage since a couple of days. The service is great but i am wondering how secure the wallet and the technology behind the service is?
What do you think?

im not sure that web is secure i see this message in front page
Backend server connection error


Title: Re: How secure is BKChain.org wallet?
Post by: Tina1736 on June 23, 2015, 08:50:13 AM
I will not use this wallet