Quote
So if you have your wallet encrypted with new method provided in new bitcoin client, and even put the datadir on an external drive that you power off/on only when you need to use the wallet. That is pretty safe right?
I have my main bitcoin savings wallet on a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu. The VM runs on an external SSD. I make transfers to this wallet once a month. The rest of the time the ssd is locked up in my safe deposit box in an ati-static bag. I keep two discs on hand with my backup encrypted .dat files.
my encryption pass-phrase is written down, and I keep that in my safe deposit box just in case I forget, or I get hit by a bus.