Access to Maidsafe Coins

[janitor]

@Seneca

Sounds good. Is that safer than simply remembering one’s 12 word pass phrase?

Why not do both? Use my method or something similar and protect the wallet/private key export with a 12 word passphrase?

The more data you have the more difficult it is to keep it safe. The more passwords and pass phrases you have, the more likely it is you’ll forget one of them (and thereby lose access to your funds, assuming you picked a complex password in the first place).

@Seneca

The idea behind my approach is that even if there was malware on my USB Linux install, the private keys cannot be transmitted to anyone because it’s never connected to the internet, and there’s no intermediary medium (like one of my HDD’s) that the malware could have used as a bridge.

I’m not trashing the approach, those are fine measures of precaution.
I just wondered aloud if that is safer than to remember (or write down) a 12 word wallet pass phrase.

@19eddyjohn75

I NEVER keep a privatekey on a PC… I always save it to a USB 3x or chop up the privkey on 3 different email addresses.

In other words, there’s a choice:

• 3 email providers who hold the chunks of your private key in plain text on their servers + three passwords (I hope it’s not just one!) each of which is probably 12 characters or less
• 12 word pass phrase for a wallet that’s not online (I’m referring to discussion from SafeNet App Funding Through Koinify - #7 by 19eddyjohn75)

And your conclusion is the first approach is safer. Is that because of 2FA that you have?

@19eddyjohn75

Actually your MaidSafeCoin might be save on blockchain.info because it’s wallet doesn’t show your MaidSafeCoin.

That is absolutely hilarious!