Quote from: TanteStefana2 on July 01, 2016, 11:24:19 PM

This is very cool, and I just installed it on my laptop as I always launch it via terminal normally, but I thought I'd get with the program (and try the PPA out). I'm wondering if this is in fact a safer way to install the Dash wallet? Or can this PPA be hacked easier than the git or website download? Just wondering, as we can't check the hash this way??

Good question! See my comments below.

Quote from: dihydrogenmonoxide on July 01, 2016, 11:13:16 AM

Dear all,

for convenience and on popular demand we have created a Dash PPA for Ubuntu - so installation on Ubuntu Linux is much easier now.

Just do

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dash.org/dash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dashd dash-qt

and your Dash wallet is ready to use

Be very careful when following advice from community developers. PPA installation is NOT optimal from a security perspective. Learn from other recent failures:

DASH paper wallet faulty RNG (January 4th - April 5th, 2016):

Hello Everyone,

Unfortunately we broke paper.dash.org on January 4th and the seeding process for generating a wallet was insecure since then. There are no known Dash thefts that have taken place because of this (yet), but if you created a wallet using paper.dash.org between January 4th and April 5th, please move your money to a new place.

We take these kinds of issues quite seriously and believe it's our fiduciary responsibility to create the most secure environment for users to store value safely in our ecosystem. To address the issue weve reverted the patch that caused the issue and have also reverted paper.dash.org to an earlier, much safer version.

Thanks,

Evan Duffield

https://dashtalk.org/threads/security-advisory-for-paper-dash-org.8525/#post-90291