Curious to know your thoughts on using encryption to store recovery phrase
Something like Superbacked.
Every bitcoiner needs privacy if they don’t want a gun in their face.
Cold storage protects your keys.
Not your face. Not your family. Not your location.
And if you’ve stacked anything worth noticing, you’re not paranoid.
You’re a walking payday.
Criminals don’t need to hack your wallet.
They just need to know you have one and where to find you.
https://untraceabledigitaldissident.com/why-every-bitcoiner-needs-operational-privacy/
Discussion
I'd personally say something like a one time pad so you can keep it all analog never hurts. Basically turns your single sig backups into two part backup, in that you need to use both the pad you used to encrypt the seed phrase, as well as the ciphertext of the seedphrase, to recover the plaintext of the seedphrase.
Sort of clunky to implement, and requires a lot more hammering into steel, but avoids needing to rely on any sort of algorithmic cryptography that may or may not be as future proof as you really hope it will be.
You and SovereignMoney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJLr0rBO0XU) are the only guys talking about this obviously great encrpytion software. Why are so few bitcoiners aware of it? Is it because you need an extra air gapped laptop? I am very curious and will try superbacked as soon as I have such a computer.
But I still have questions:
- are the qr-codes safe enough to store them online? (icloud?)
- Is there any proof that these QR´s can´t be hacked?
- where can I buy a fresh and hardened no-wifi/no bluetooth laptop?
Thank you for your great work, Jor!!! You so much opened my eyes in Bitcoinspace. I learn a lot from you!
Greetings from Germany