[bitcoin-dev] Paper Wallet support in bitcoin-core

[Aymeric Vitte]

I am not sure that this discussion is really off topic for this list,
this is a real issue, would everybody even here say that they feel very
comfortable with their keys? That if something happen to them there is
no pb for the family or trusted parties to retrieve the keys? That this
process is secured in case the trusted parties are finally untrusted? etc

I don't think so, if experts are not comfortable then how can we expect
non experts people to manage this? (except going to a wallet sw asking
them all the info, even online, crazy but they just don't know)

Comments below


Le 30/09/2017 à 06:49, Jonas Schnelli via bitcoin-dev a écrit :

> And I would also extend those concerns to BIP39 plaintext paper backups.

Personnaly I don't see also the advantage of proposals such as BIP39 versus backing up a seed 

> IMO, private keys should be generated and used (signing) on a trusted, minimal and offline hardware/os.

This is the intent of https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-wallets and
https://github.com/Ayms/zcash-wallets

But even myself can get confused, where did I put the backup seed? But
remember you did not backup the seed but the first derivation step and
you mixed it secretely, so nobody can reconstitute it except you,
well... what did I do exactly? What version is my real wallet? What is
the encryption key? How did I do last time to add the key in qt? etc

>  They should never leave the device over the channel used for the signing I/O. Users should have no way to view or export the private keys (expect for the seed backup). Backups should be encrypted (whoever finds the paper backup should need a second factor to decrypt) and the restore process should be footgun-safe (especially the lost-passphrase deadlock).

Is there really nothing existing yet to address all of this?


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