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Case – Insanely Secure Hardware Bitcoin Wallet

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Re: Case – Insanely Secure Hardware Bitcoin Wallet

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Doesn't sound particularly secure. Problems include that third key in offline storage, which sounds vulnerable to social engineering.

Right... So Case stores two of your keys, and only two keys are needed to transfer money. The security claim seems overblown.

Re: Case – Insanely Secure Hardware Bitcoin Wallet

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Doesn't sound particularly secure. Problems include that third key in offline storage, which sounds vulnerable to social engineering.

Well, the third key is only useful if one has one of the other two.

Though there is the possibility that an adversary could get access to the third key and the key that they store for being tied to the biometrics?

But I think that that is probably sometimes a lower risk than the risk of "oops, I lost/forgot my bitcoin key" if one is using single signature? (depending on the person, and their adversaries)

Re: Case – Insanely Secure Hardware Bitcoin Wallet

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post #4
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Doesn't sound particularly secure. Problems include that third key in offline storage, which sounds vulnerable to social engineering.

Well, the third key is only useful if one has one of the other two. Though there is the possibility that an adversary could get access to the third key and the key that they store for being tied to the biometrics? But I think that that is probably sometimes a lower risk than the risk of "oops, I lost/forgot my bitcoin key" if one is using single signature? (depending on the person, and their adversaries)

I'd prefer the option to generate that third key locally and skip storing it on their servers.
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