AIR GAPPED CRYPTO WALLET SOFTWARE
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It’s a good assumption because these devices are not only sold to Bitcoiners making private keys, but regular people as well, so there is little return in tampering with a generic device. We’re also trusting that the generic computer equipment we buy is not somehow tampered with.

With this device, you can “restore” the seed that the first HWW generated, and you can compare the addresses that were created you must make sure they are identical.

Use another HWW to verify: This HWW must be a different brand from the one you are checking.A way to mitigate this type of “laboratory-condition risk,” if you are so inclined, is to: A) use a multisignature wallet B) use a different air-gapped computer for each key, and C) create the keys at different places on different days on each computer. Yes, the National Security Agency might park a van outside your house and tap into your power cables and work out your keystrokes, but come on, we can be paranoid and realistic at the same time.

AIR GAPPED CRYPTO WALLET SOFTWARE

With this device, you can confidently create seeds (see this guide), or type in the seed words into a software wallet (to check the addresses) without a realistic risk that the seed can be extracted. It’s preferable that your AGC is new, and ideal that you build it yourself. Also, malware might wait on your system for you to accidentally connect to the internet and then transmit private data out. Simply using a regular computer and switching off the WiFi is not sufficient, because the WiFi components are RADIO devices and they can be accessed by software (malware) on your computer even if you THINK the WiFi is off.

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Air-gapped computer: This is a computer with no WiFi or Bluetooth devices (including mouse and keyboard).

What is to say that a potentially nefarious device has OTHER SOFTWARE embedded in it, in addition to the open-source software you installed? What if that software is interfering and tricking you? It’s highly paranoid, I know, but for security, you have to start with the assumption that clever people are out to steal your bitcoin.We are still “assuming” the developer won’t be stealing from us, so this won't do actually, not for large amounts of bitcoin.

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Many would download the compiled version, and even if they check the developer’s signature of an executable file (to eliminate the risk of tampering), they are still trusting the developer actually used the available open-source code to create the executable file that was downloaded. Most people don’t do that because it’s too hard. To actually eliminate trust, you must ensure that you are the one that put the software inside the device, AND, you compiled that software yourself from the open-source code. “Open source” is not enough to be secure, because we are not directly downloading the readable version of open-source software, we’re downloading a derivative, i.e., the executable file, which is created from the readable code and can only be interpreted by a machine.You might wonder, “isn’t the software open source, and therefore I’m not trusting it?” Well, two things to say about that: The whole point of having a HWW in the first place is so your computer never has access to your seed, and you don’t have to worry about malware stealing it. If you understood what I just said, it sounds easy enough to do, but this involves typing the seed(s) into a computer – and that is dangerous!

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