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Board Armory
Re: Armory - Discussion Thread
by
asyn
on 25/10/2013, 21:30:55 UTC
Can't you just convert dice results to a private key yourself and import that into Armory?
Now I feel really lazy but is there any simple way to do this? Any offline open source tools available to do this? Or how exactly do I convert dice results into a private key?

You probably don't want to create a single private key but a complete armory wallet with deterministic keys.

I've created a simple java app some months ago that creates Armory paper backup codes from any text input. I've used it to create a deterministic armory wallet from a very long and specific sentence. No need for a paper backup this way. When I'm in trouble I can escape to Nicaragua without any usb-stick and recover my XBT by just buying a laptop, downloading the JAR file from github and feed it with my passphrase.

It may be not 100% what you're looking for because it uses a string as input, but it's open source and you could tweak it for your needs. The code base is very small.

Source code: https://github.com/trapp/brainwallet
Binary Download: https://github.com/trapp/brainwallet/releases/download/1.0.0/BrainWallet.jar

The app works completely offline and doesn't communicate with anything but as always be careful: Read the code and compile it by yourself to be absolutely sure or use it only in an offline environment.