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May 31, 2013, 12:34:38 PM |
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As has been mentioned before, the most important thing for you to do is to separate out the amount which you want to store long-term (aka savings) and the amount which you want to use in day-to-day transactions and treat them separately. For the latter a simple encrypted wallet is probably the right balance of security and convenience with possibly a hardware key in the near future as they become more stable. For the former you need to do everything you can to keep your private keys away from others.
If you boot a live CD/USB distribution on to a computer not connected to the internet and generate your keypairs there it's a good first step, then you need to take whatever measures you feel appropriate to manage your private keys. This can be any combination of encryption, cold storage, obfuscation etc. but remember that you do need to be able to get them back (and if you want your next-of-kin to be able to access your bitcoins in the event of an unfortunate meteor strike then you need to ensure that they can carry out the same procedures as you).
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