HOWTO: create a 100% secure wallet

[bdvger]

  Thank goodness someone made this. I didn't know how to make my wallet secure until now!

[minero1]

so, it's not like my wallet.dat HAS the coins, thery are in the network like in a bank and my wallet is like my credit card number, right?

[coinhammer]

Thank you for the edutainment Great info!

Best Regards,
CoinHammer

[lain086]

Encrypt your wallet...makes sense. Thanks for the post!

[BCDuke]

Wallet security seems like one of the more major problems for the general population to use BitCoins, especially considering the unability to recover stolen BitCoins. It seems like Credit Card Fraud squared, if BitCoins were to become really popular.

Although, from a purely theoretical view (and one that most hardcore BitCoin users would oppose), it might be possible to create a central institute then, which could oversee which BitCoins are "legit" and which are reported "stolen".

[btcoiner]

thanks for the info

[dasparx]

Hmm, i keep mine in a linux VM that's saved on an usb-pendrive. Truecrypted, btw
i burn backups on dvd's.
Whie not the best method, it has worked for me.

[bncbnc]

Thanks for this

[Bravoecho]

Just adding my 0.00002 BTC

I run OSX.  My security is:

1 - Create small truecrypt volume ~ 30mb
2 - Mount truecrypt volume
3 - Install (first time) and run (every time after that) the Bitcoin client from truecrypt volume.
4 - When not using Bitcoin client, simply close application.
5 - After Bitcoin client is closed, dismount truecrypt volume, which then is a highly encrypted file containing wallet.dat and all other Bitcoin app files.

I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts on this.  It is very simple, and allows me to store my encrypted file anywhere as a backup online.

[WaVeS]

Thanks!

[Amanda]

100% secure doesn't excist D:

[lupuyu]

nice!thank you

[joulesbeef]

100% secure doesn't excist D:

and neither does a security subforum here.. and why not?

[biscuitbase]

Thanks. Great read, informative and, dare I say it, funny! 

[ama]

I have been running without any protection whatsoever for the past 8 years, and have had a total of 5 viruses

You think you've had only five.  The danger is on the ones you don't know you have.  :-)

[Skar3]

Thank you for this guide

[supersquish]

Nice guide will refer to it when I have enough bitcoins to be worth stealing. Nothing will ever be 100% secure though, but if you rounded upwards the claim is probably correct. Cheers

[deathomen]

What are the chances that say you buy 10,000 btc and the market completely dying.  I mean is btc worth investing in and using and saving your money that way?  I'm interesting in doing so, but a year from now I don't want ten grand worth 1 grand.

[BitcoinMagus]

I went to the site and it gives 3 options.

plus the one above.

Any suggestions?

I'm working from a persoanl laptop with vista

[BitcoinSEC]

I agree