Recommend current Trezor Safe 3/5 hardware cold wallets

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Open-source hardware cold wallets for storing cryptocurrency securely.

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Privacy Guides recommends Monero, and so I believe a hardware cold-wallet recommendation makes sense to complement that recommendation. Modern Trezor wallets are, as far as I know, the best option in this category. They are open-source with EAL6+ certified secure elements to protect private key material. They can also be used with the official Monero GUI / CLI rather than Trezor’s own Trezor Suite.

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I’m interested in researching them further. We are long overdue for hardware-based recommendations.

Thanks for letting us know!

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They’re also a good replacement for proprietary and disposable YubiKeys. So it’s pretty much a cryptowallet and a security key in one.

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@Lukas
Yubico at least has their app and tools on F-Droid and packaged in many distros.
And some of my Yubikeys are well over a decade old now and still work fine.

I’d definitely class them as apples and oranges.

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After reading the new and updated article above, I would rather use other ways of installing and updating my apps, like Accrescent or Obtainium.

As for distribution packages, it’s very easy to spin up VMs using GNOME Boxes or, even better, just use distroboxes, so distro packages aren’t really a problem, imo.

Even if they work fine, they could be vulnerable to known exploits and are definitely missing new features on the latest firmware versions.