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March 18, 2014, 04:00:02 AM
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First of all, I know that an offline wallet is the most secure, but I'm not ready to set one of those up. On that note, useful link:

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If I keep a copy of my wallet password somewhere on my computer -- in a text file or something -- will it be obtainable by a hacker? And if so, what if I kept it in the form of an image -- typed out in MS PAint and saved as an image. The idea of a hacker scanning my computer and moreover actually finding my wallet's password sound's a bit paranoid. But if that's really possible, disguising it shouldn't be too hard right?

Another thing is that I just used a brute force script in order to recover my password, because after I encrypted my wallet I wrote my password down only and missed a character in doing so. I would imagine there's a record of this script and it should be deleted for security reasons. How do I delete the record?
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March 18, 2014, 04:13:21 AM
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You should change the password that you coded into the script and save.

Check out electrum or armory -- they both generate a random passphrase for you and you can print it out, so you don't have to write it down Smiley

Guide to armory offline install on USB key:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241730.0
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March 18, 2014, 04:17:38 AM
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Check out electrum or armory -- they both generate a random passphrase for you and you can print it out, so you don't have to write it down Smiley

http://passwordsgenerator.net/

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