Quote from: jubalix on April 05, 2013, 06:04:36 AM

Quote from: dlauth on April 02, 2013, 06:42:30 PM

Reading a ton of different ways for cold storage.

What is the most secure/easiest way to cold store BTC and also LTC.

Do you really need to keep the wallet.dat file or just the Private and Public keys?

Thanks

why dont' people pdf print and use trucrypt and leave copies everywhere?

Because if anything happens to your trucrypt password, the bitcoins are lost forever. If you didn't write down the password, and you forget it you're hosed. If you die, your family doesn't inherit your bitcoins.

So then you figure ok I'll write down the trucrypt password. Now you're right back where you started with the wallet.

One solution to this that I'm using is Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm. It gives you redundancy (losing one of the printed keys is ok) but without the increased risk (an attacker finding one of your copies doesn't help him steal your coins).