]I have found my encrypted seed. Trying to decrypt it now
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I've just seen your updates on your post bitcoininformation. Would it be good if bippy could AES-256-CBC decrypt an Electrum encrypted seed? I could certainly look into that as a feature.
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I'd be interested to hear your experience with this. I only started to investigate Electrum when the possible need for a wood-wallet was raised. I could see that the seed was available in the wallet file but the instructions to get it were, I felt, a little unfriendly to a newcomer. It's worth pointing out too that the way Electrum handles seeds seems to be changing in version 2 (see rdymac's reply to AussieHash
on reddit)
That said, bippy isn't particularly newbie friendly in its current form (ensure you have Python installed, download and run kivy, clone a git repo and run a program etc.). We are working on that though and should soon be able to offer single file executables so that it becomes very easy to run.
The reason we haven't done this so far is to try and counter the argument put forward by AussieHash. He quite rightly points out that trusting a third party with your private key or electrum seed details is risky. Both
bippy and my other project
inuit are fairly new and not as mature as say Electrum or Armory. They and I don't have the level of trust that these older projects have and rightly so. I hope, however that by being open, accountable and known, we can start to earn trust and gain acceptance and use in the community. Once we have that trust we can deliver an easier experience through compiled code.
Bippy isn't particularly complex and I have tried to comment the code as best I can. I would ask that, if you are interested, you give it a read and see what you think. I'm happy to answer any questions and will take all comments and criticisms on board.
To my mind, bippy wins over similar tools such as bitaddress.org in a few ways. First, it can generate keys and addresses for multiple (45+) currencies, it can now handle Elecrtum seeds and encrypt them and I'm working on the intermediate code version of BIP0038. Most importantly though, although bitaddress.org is open source and is very very good (I've read it lots), it still relies on a third party web browser to display your keys, do the encryption and receive input. I know you can 'clear' a browsers cache but I know that I have never delved into a browsers code to see what it is actually doing. It seems like a weak point to my mind. Bippy doesn't need a browser so there isn't that reliance on a massively complicated bit of code written over a long time by multiple people.
Bippy will run fully offline and I totally recommend that you do just that. Boot up a Linux Live CD or USB, install bippy, encrypt your seed, write the encrypted code down and then reboot. Bippy never gets to see the internet and your seed is never exposed in a form that isn't password protected.
I do hope that Bippy becomes useful. It is a fun project and I will continue to work on it. Nico is a great guy too and it's a real pleasure being involved with something as aesthetically pleasing as wood-wallets
In answer to kuverty; A wood-wallet really is a thing of beauty. I took delivery of my first several weeks ago and I have been showing everyone since. It is wonderfully tactile and smells great. Everyone who has seen it has wanted one and 90% of them know very little about Bitcoin so it is a great conversation starter.
