This is my current plan for a new hardware wallet section. We should flesh out what we want to see the criteria for our recommendations looking like: Recommended Brands [image] Trezor Safe 3/5/7 (hardware cold wallets) hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions Check t…

Very cool idea indeed! :star_struck: Being quite a neophyte on that topic, is it possible to also include more “hardcore” products like those? [image] Cryptosteel | The Mother of All Backups Cryptosteel is the best backup tool for storing wallet recovery seed phrases, private keys, and…

These backup products I am not really sure how to evaluate, or where they make sense to use. I’m interested to know what others think. With an unprotected seed phrase I would be most concerned about theft or loss. It’s commonly said that backing up your seed phrase is critical, which might be true,…

Oh okay, it’s mostly for seeds? Again, didn’t looked too deep into that topic yet but it looks quite irrelevant to the initial recommendations indeed. Feel free to totally ignore my previous message then. :heart: edit: it looks like it’s more to replace something like Cake Wallet I suppose. :+1:t2…

I’ve thought about seed and password backups before, but it’s hard to find a balance between never losing access yourself and never allowing unauthorized access. Ideally, backups would be protected against both physical theft/loss and spontaneous memory loss. You could duplicate your wallets across…

[image] bastiperm: You could also use two dedicated password manager accounts Entering it in a computer immediately defeats the purpose of a hardware wallet so this wouldn’t be advisable. It’s possible to do but not a very accessible solution, basically requiring an air-gapped PC with a verif…

That’s a good point. You could use an OTP and store one half in the password manager and one half offline with the account password. Either copy on its own would be useless. Another factor I forgot to mention is recovery by loved ones. Anything that doesn’t involve all of the details being written …

[image] bastiperm: You could instead use an algorithm like Shamir’s secret sharing (SSS), which also allows you to store arbitrary data (such as a backup of your password manager’s master password), but requres running software to recreate the encrypted data. There is an implementation of SSS…

Indeed, although to avoid vendor lock-in we probably would want to discourage SLIP39 and recommend the standard BIP39.

If this hardware wallet recommendation is primarily for Monero, I believe BIP39 is also a vendor lock-in, because Monero doesn’t use the common BIP39 12-word or 24-word seed phrase. So in an emergency case where the hardware wallet is unexpectedly broken, lost, or stolen and the user wants to import…

That’s a good solution to avoid needing to run the software on insecure devices! However, I still think most people are going to run into trouble with multisig, SSS, or anything similar. Here’s some of the major locations I could think to store wallets/shares in: at home, at parent’s house, at best…

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