Quote from: dazbog835 on August 09, 2017, 04:58:40 PM

Quote from: PilotofBTC on August 09, 2017, 02:26:28 PM

Quote from: dazbog835 on August 09, 2017, 02:22:15 PM

Quote from: PilotofBTC on August 09, 2017, 02:06:06 PM

Quote from: dazbog835 on August 09, 2017, 02:00:58 PM

You could temporarily install a wallet like vialectrum, create the wallet using your private key, send the coins, receive coins, then close down the program, delete it, delete the wallet.dat (possibly permamently erase it, if you know what I mean), and go about your merry way.

Yes, this will work. But what you want to do totally defeats the purpose of a paper wallet, which is to store keys that have never been on a connected PC. You should create your paper wallet on an air gapped Live CD distribution so you are 100% sure the keys have no way to see the light of day on line.

Obviously a paper wallet is a better solution. But he seemed to be asking of a simple way (for someone used to the windows environment) to create a wallet. He didn't seem to be asking about the most secure way.

Yea, I'm not saying what you said was wrong... but he's probably just as secure creating a viaelectrum portable on a thumb drive, use a strong password and store the seed somewhere off line and secure incase he loses the thumbdrive (wallet.dat).

What do you think about storing your keys in a password manager like lastpass with 2FA?
It's really strong encryption, and their entire system seems to be built very solidly.

That's were I store all my seeds and passwords. I'm less paranoid than some though. Wink

The nice thing about this is you can create one strong password, I use a 7 word diceware password as my master lastpass password.