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Board Wallet software
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Has someone evaluated the security of the alternative clients?
by
Nick
on 20/03/2013, 00:24:22 UTC
So I have just read this link and it made me think: There are so many factors to consider to create a reasonably safe bitcoin client that there ought to be a flawed and exploitable client sooner or later.
So, has someone evaluated the security of the most used clients (Satoshi, Electrum, Armory, blockchain-info, ...) so it's safe to assume that the generated private keys are unguessable? I'm talking about weak RNGs, reused random numbers and the like. Unfortunately I know way to little about cryptography to do it myself.

Also it would be useful if someone with more grasp of the concept could create a checklist of possible vulnerabilities to avoid when coding a bitcoin client.