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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: 42kang on May 18, 2011, 03:17:07 AM



Title: How do you secure your BitCoin wallet?
Post by: 42kang on May 18, 2011, 03:17:07 AM
What are some precautions that you personally take to secure your money?


Title: Re: How do you secure your BitCoin wallet?
Post by: Anonymous on May 18, 2011, 03:18:39 AM
I prefer to print the private keys to my wallets either on archive quality paper or through a BitBill. Others encrypt their wallet and distribute it en-masse to all the major online storage hubs. Either way works.


Title: Re: How do you secure your BitCoin wallet?
Post by: bitlotto on May 18, 2011, 03:25:56 AM
Encrypted hard drive. And Linux. Multiple backups.


Title: Re: How do you secure your BitCoin wallet?
Post by: grondilu on May 18, 2011, 03:29:41 AM
Encrypted hard drive. And Linux. Multiple backups.

idem.

regarding hard drive encryption:

$ apt-cache show ecryptfs-utils
Package: ecryptfs-utils
Version: 83-4
Installed-Size: 464
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel@NO_SPAM>
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2), libecryptfs0, libgpg-error0 (>= 1.6-1), libgpgme11 (>= 1.1.2), libkeyutils1, libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), gettext-base, keyutils, libnss3-1d, libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-6)
Suggests: cryptsetup, opencryptoki
Description: ecryptfs cryptographic filesystem (utilities)
 eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem
 for Linux.
 .
 It provides advanced key management and policy features. eCryptfs stores
 cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted
 files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper
 key, and there is no need to keep track of any additional information aside
 from what is already in the encrypted file itself. Think of eCryptfs as a sort
 of "gnupgfs".
 .
 eCryptfs is a native Linux filesystem. The kernel module component of eCryptfs
 is part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.19.
 .
 This package contains the userland utilities.
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs
Tag: implemented-in::c, role::program, security::cryptography
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/ecryptfs-utils/ecryptfs-utils_83-4_i386.deb
Size: 98190
MD5sum: f10be79be3b4b38eafdefcbd37104336
SHA1: 9c7529f10d5fc5162d34da6d4bea63cd48092ece
SHA256: 3b5dd87d8d18241557e8d9b5314c5ffda88c62748dd08403cdaa265c1c963145