Yeah something is wrong.  I think my ISP is blocking 80 that is why I am the only one who can access it.  I will fix it tomorrow after work.

:shrugs: ya get what ya pay for...

-- Smoov

Then your best option is a brain wallet.

Alternatively you could use a 2factor approach (passphrase + paper wallet)
Generate a sequence of random numbers that when hashed WITH the passphrase form the private key

i.e.
SHA256(secret phase + key1) = private key #1
SHA256(secret phase + key2) = private key #2

this would require an attacker to both know the passphrase AND have access to the paper containing the list of keys.

If you did something like that I would use a chained key derivitive function like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 with a high round count.  That would provide some resistance against brute force attack.

I think you are missing what Foxpup is saying.  Your deposit box being destroyed is no guarantee that you lost access to the funds.  It is impossible to prove that you have no backup of the private key and that anything of material value was lost.  No insurance company (none anywhere, ever) is going to write insurance for an event (that the insured was actually lost/destroyed) that they can't prove actually happened.


You lose.  Of course the odds that a personal safe, safety deposit box, and encrypted archive in the cloud all were destroyed simultaneously is so small that if it happened you likely have bigger problems.

Once all the coins are mined, we'll all be dead.

No one in that thread was reachable. They don't actually run retroshare at all, or if they do ever fire it up they presumably notice as I do that there is no one online to connect to thus they shut it down again as useless.

I even got a private message recently on these forums from someone claiming they will run it almost all the time, so I fired it up, saw that still there is no one to connect to, added them and waited and saw that they too were not online so unable to be connected to, and shut it down again.

I had 28 or more people from the thread PLUS another over 20 people I friended from being able to see the connections of the 28 in the thread, yet all of those second-step connections also were offline.

Meanwhile I have always found connections no problem when I fire up i2p or Tor or Freenet. So compared to any of those three I basically do not find retroshare worth bothering with. The whole point of a network is connections. Without connections there is no network.

Even if the person who resorted to PM to get me to add him or her does turn out to be online they next several times I fire up retroshare, that won't convince me to bother with it. When I see the majority of the people in the thread and/or the majority of the people I reached through them online every time I fire it up I might reconsider whether it is worthwhile.

-MarkM-

Watching thread... 

You don't need python or pywallet for it.
You just need to use bitcoind and the new dumpprivkey command
I don't think you need a full blockchain for it. Ofcourse I can be mistaken.

I feel much better now, i think the alcohol enchanced it all, i was more down than depressed really. Thanks though for good advices:)

I get a lot of income from overseas, and as much I think I should be allowed to Opt-Out of Social Security and receive a return of all I have paid in, even if it's a rollover to a Roth IRA of my choice. It's my cash and I hate it that the Government gets to force me to invest in Social Security, I should have the choice.

Sign this petition, let's see if it works:
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/allow-citizens-opt-out-social-security-taxes-and-return-them-all-money-paid-upon-opt-out/KLcN0850