HOWTO: create a 100% secure wallet

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Hey all,

Last week I posted 2 quick questions up a bit on this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17240.msg1028921#msg1028921

I'm wondering if someone could glance at them and give my reasoning a sanity / double check?

John has actually answered both your questions:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17240.msg1029620#msg1029620

[Testit]

Thanks for all the info 
 I will testit

[jackson123]

thanks a lot, this was really helpful and easy to follow.

[GetFreeCoins]

This sounds like a very long and proccess on how to secure your wallet, if you are very afraid you should indeed follow this guide. I do not really have the Bitcoins very secure, some of them are put in several InstaWallet accounts and someone in the normal Bitcoin client.

[fsk141]

Ideal method is to just have bitcoind running on a server & store your wallet *~/.bitcoin* folder as an encfs partition.

[mystery2048]

No wallet is 100% secure except an offline wallet where you do the hashing on an abacus... Its entirely possible (likely) a 0-day exploit will be discovered and you will lose every bitcoin handled by your client...

[unclemantis]

No wallet is 100% secure except an offline wallet where you do the hashing on an abacus... Its entirely possible (likely) a 0-day exploit will be discovered and you will lose every bitcoin handled by your client...

I need to see this is motion.

[on9isrock]

need to have antirus
preventing or securing us from identity theft

[louisBSAS]

I'm on Linux, so I am not worried about virus attacks.  I back up my wallet.dat regularly to several pen drives.

Question:  I am mining so I usually have 4 or 5 transactions awaiting another 100+ block solves before they are confirmed.  Let's say I backup my wallet and something happens / need to restore it.  If I restore the a .dat - that was backed up with 4 partially confirmed transactions, will they be reconfirmed or lost?

Thx

[drrussellshane]

I'm on Linux, so I am not worried about virus attacks.  I back up my wallet.dat regularly to several pen drives.

Question:  I am mining so I usually have 4 or 5 transactions awaiting another 100+ block solves before they are confirmed.  Let's say I backup my wallet and something happens / need to restore it.  If I restore the a .dat - that was backed up with 4 partially confirmed transactions, will they be reconfirmed or lost?

Thx

They would be confirmed.

[ben-abuya]

Has anybody made a live linux distro version for a wallet to a thumb drive setup ?

I've started a project that builds a modified Ubuntu Privacy Remix distro to create secure offline wallets, and execute offline transactions. Might be of interest to the readers of this thread. More details in the original post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94321.0

[molecular]

No wallet is 100% secure except an offline wallet where you do the hashing on an abacus... Its entirely possible (likely) a 0-day exploit will be discovered and you will lose every bitcoin handled by your client...

You don't have to do hashing to maintain a wallet. 0-day exploits only work on connected machines. So when using an offline machine to keep your keys you will not lose any bitcoin to a 0-day exploit. No abacus required, just scissors for the network cable.

[hplus]

just encrypt it and put the passphrase in your will lol

[HauntingShade]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[purplesquid]

Good info, thanks!

[aimbot]

Thanks for the info.  I was just reading about Bitcoinica when I stumbled upon your post.  I will definitely use this information in the near future!

[Bastone]

Thanks for the writeup.

[PoWdA]

No wallet is 100% secure except an offline wallet where you do the hashing on an abacus... Its entirely possible (likely) a 0-day exploit will be discovered and you will lose every bitcoin handled by your client...

No wallet can ever be completely secure. You can encrypt the hell out of it but the physical media you have it stored on can always become damaged. This is a great how to on making a decently secure savings wallet though. Very good information here. I will admit that I don't have enough bitcoins to even have a savings wallet yet but if I had any substantial amount of coins I would absolutely create a really secure wallet.

[Teddyhead]

Brainwallet n00bz

[paladon]

Thanks for the wise information. It's helpfull.