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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Vanity Private Key
by
BurtW
on 16/12/2015, 15:58:54 UTC
This has been suggested to him several times.
You're going about this the wrong way. What you want is to store the long part of the key in an easily-accessible form, but then have a small password that you know that secures it. There's actually a standard way to do this that is secure (well, as secure as your password): BIP38 encryption. Here are some sites that let you generate a BIP38-encrypted key: (I can't vouch for either of them personally, but they look decent enough)

https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/bitcoinpaperwallet/generate-wallet.html
https://bit2factor.com/

BIP38 uses scrypt as a key stretcher, so that it's harder to guess your password (still, you should choose a good one, e.g. 8 random characters, not just a word or name).