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From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>
To: Wladimir <laanwj@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: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:06:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgRDmmv_EhUTRBfh8sBbCAoG_jcJeHE4fsKTHzOjoci4Gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJDdENtqQt1f+L5htuuyPxUxsq0prLQFBLirTjJz0nG1gw@mail.gmail.com>

Bringing the thread back on-topic:

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. Instead users would create-wallet, which
would also give them options like using a HSM (e.g. trezor) or
multisig secured wallet.  That would be a great point where, if they
elect to run and ordinary unsecured wallet, and the software detects
that the host is known-to-not-likely-be-secure it could whine at them
and direct them to a security best practices page.

Then you also avoid whining at people who never run a wallet or use a
hsm making the host security somewhat moot.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-16 22:06 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 [this message]
2014-04-17  7:39   ` Wladimir
     [not found] ` <CACKnu1prEkZb5L4bGeKfjHtW+1CLmAuYr2-OWq0z5z+SvxhLTg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-17  7:27   ` Wladimir

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