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Re: [BOUNTY] Help test next major release of Armory! [0.04 BTC/bug]
by
etotheipi
on 16/11/2013, 07:05:13 UTC
Didn't even notice, my bad.

But yeah just a suggestion to offer a somewhat more advanced security lockdown to help 'prevent' malware.

If your machine is compromised, nothing will save you from having the contents of your wallet stolen. Onscreen keyboards, "scrambling" and checking the clipboard are just feel-good measures and offer no tangible security.

I don't promote the feature much, because it's minimal security improvement.  But it does protect against the simplest of keyloggers.  There's this notion that all viruses are omniscient, and targeting your bitcoin wallet.  If it's targeting your wallet, the OSD keyboard probably won't help.  But if it's just sucking data off your system looking for banking login passwords, etc... you avoided giving away too much info.

But I agree the feature is really quite minimal in terms of its security benefit.   (and generally, I try to assume omniscient malware when thinking about security, but not everything has to be super-effective to be part of the interface)