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Title: Dedicated paper wallet-maker client that can be used entirely offline? Post by: samadamsbeer on July 14, 2012, 08:43:01 AM Are there any opensource, simple tools that can be used just to generate paper wallet addresses? I know there are some BTC wallet clients that do this, I believe, and some websites with client side tools that can be used offline, but I was hoping for something dirt simple that may also offer some ability to make sure its been peer reviewed and that the client I download is the same via checksum or something. Like an entirely downloadable version of Bitaddress.org.
Title: Re: Dedicated paper wallet-maker client that can be used entirely offline? Post by: matthewh3 on July 14, 2012, 09:57:22 PM Start a secure browser session. Go to - https://www.bitaddress.org - disconnect from the internet. Reload page then print off as many copies as you need.
Title: Re: Dedicated paper wallet-maker client that can be used entirely offline? Post by: casascius on July 14, 2012, 10:03:49 PM Like an entirely downloadable version of Bitaddress.org. Go to bitaddress.org - right click - view source - save it into a local .html file - go offline - run it. The entire site is a single file with no references or dependencies. Even the images are base64-encoded to maintain it as a single file. Title: Re: Dedicated paper wallet-maker client that can be used entirely offline? Post by: exotime on July 17, 2012, 05:58:26 PM Ideally you would securely transfer a save of the page (which you saved on a secure computer, of course ;) ) to your offline savings wallet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet) computer / OS.
You can then even use another computer to redownload and compare using a hash, to ensure that you haven't gotten a targeted malicious copy, however unlikely that may be. edit: bad link Title: Re: Dedicated paper wallet-maker client that can be used entirely offline? Post by: casascius on July 17, 2012, 06:01:38 PM Ideally you would securely transfer a save of the page (which you saved on a secure computer, of course ;) ) to your [ur=https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet]offline savings wallet[/url] computer / OS. You can then even use another computer to redownload and compare using a hash, to ensure that you haven't gotten a targeted malicious copy, however unlikely that may be. Or compare to the signed SHA1 hash given by its author - the link to the signed message is in the page itself at the bottom. Title: Re: Dedicated paper wallet-maker client that can be used entirely offline? Post by: samadamsbeer on July 19, 2012, 05:36:20 PM Thanks folks!
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