- backing up your wallet: The balance of your bitcoins may not be in the address you see, and the entire contents of one address may be emptied by just one small transfer.
Most paper wallets if have seen only store both the public and private keys. How does Armory do this?
- paper wallet: The whole point is to generate a can't-be-hacked wallet. You've made one on your computer in the way everyone expects you have, leaving data behind on that machine or a log of your activity if you've been hacked and have a key and screen recording trojan horse.
My bad, should be done using a live-cd and take it off-line just to be sure it's totally secure.
So this advice must be regarded with RED warning tape!
it's the noob section after all