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December 17, 2017, 11:57:17 AM |
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Hi,
I'm a new Armory user that have been in the bitcoin-space for a while so I have some knowledge of how this technology works. This might sound overly paranoid but bear with me, I have my reasons.
I have set up an offline instance of Armory on an off-line laptop (I even yanked the on-board wifi-card) and I run a full Core node and an on-line instance of Armory on another computer with watching-wallets to every wallet I created in the offline instance of Armory.
Everything works as I expected. There are, however, a couple of things I have searched for answers to without succeeding. The on-line watching-wallets generate different addresses than the off-line wallets (This seems to be exclusively in regards to Segwit addresses). This is probably not an issue since I have been able to sign transactions on the off-line computer so everything is probably as it should be. Despite this I would like to find a way to verify that I actually control the private key to the receiving addresses I use. I realize this probably sound overly paranoid but a couple of weeks ago I lost a few coins when I made a transaction from one Trezor to another. The receiving Trezor generated an address to which it apparently didn't have the keys. If you ask the Trezor support about this they of course claim that this is impossible and that I made some kind of mistake, which maybe I did, I doubt it though. So that's the explanation to my query and why I will never receive another large transaction again without being 100% certain that I control the private keys.
I'm fairly certain that this is possible and probably trivial to accomplish with Armory, but I haven't been able to find any relevant information yet and I would be most grateful for any advice. And just to be clear, I know how to extract the private keys to addresses showing up on my wallets in the off-line instance of Armory. I want to be able to extract the keys to an address that is generated in the online-watching-wallet by somehow telling the offline wallet about the address.
Hopefully this post isn't to incoherent to understand...
Best regards
Andy
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