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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:39:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJBJgm8v5UZpwkF10UpP7-v3+DgsZZhedzu-6vad9cS2Qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRDmmv_EhUTRBfh8sBbCAoG_jcJeHE4fsKTHzOjoci4Gg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>wrote:

> Bringing the thread back on-topic:
>

Thanks.


>  On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Today I noticed that even my bank is warning people to not do internet
> > banking with Windows XP.
> > If it is no longer secure enough for online banking it's CERTAINLY not
> > secure enough to run a wallet (for a node only it would be ok-ish as they
> > have no keys to protect).
> > Any opinions on what to do here?
>
> I think eventually multi-wallet support will make it so that a wallet
> won't be created by default.


After the wallet split-off this will also be easier:

- Bitcoin Core Node
- Bitcoin Core Wallet

The node would be as compatible as possible with any OS in existence, but
the wallet can be more picky.


> Instead users would create-wallet, which
> would also give them options like using a HSM (e.g. trezor) or
> multisig secured wallet.


HSMs complicate this; I'm not even sure how this will work, are the Trezor
guys planning to contribute support for their device to wallets including
Bitcoin Core?

Hopefully by that time, everyone will have forgotten about XP already :)

Wladimir

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-16  8:14 [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) Wladimir
2014-04-16  8:45 ` Melvin Carvalho
2014-04-16  9:41   ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 11:06     ` [Bitcoin-development] mid-term bitcoin security (Re: Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?)) Adam Back
2014-04-18 14:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-18 14:39       ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-16 15:12 ` [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in Windows XP (or drop support?) Kevin
2014-04-16 15:20   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:28     ` Wladimir
2014-04-16 16:27       ` Kevin
2014-04-16 16:35         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:41           ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 16:44             ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 16:50               ` Chris Williams
2014-04-16 18:59             ` Kevin
2014-04-16 19:43       ` Adam Back
2014-04-16 20:42     ` Roy Badami
2014-04-16 21:10       ` Laszlo Hanyecz
2014-04-16 21:29         ` Kevin
2014-04-16 21:39           ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:00             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-16 15:23   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-16 22:06 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-17  7:39   ` Wladimir [this message]
     [not found] ` <CACKnu1prEkZb5L4bGeKfjHtW+1CLmAuYr2-OWq0z5z+SvxhLTg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17  7:27   ` Wladimir

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