Re: What if bitaddress.org is generating the addresses of an HD Wallet?
It's open source, so If it contained malicious code, we would've known already. Just download the source code, turn off your internet connection and print, you'll be fine.
If it's a large amount though, I highly recommend a hardware wallet. The private keys could start to fade over the years If the paper is not well stored/protected etc.
If it's a large amount though, I highly recommend a hardware wallet. The private keys could start to fade over the years If the paper is not well stored/protected etc.
by source code you mean zip file on bitaddress.org
download it and open bitaddress.org.html in chrome
am i correct
bitaddress.org is a website and can be hacked. an attacker can technically take control of the domain and put his own link at the bottom of the page though different methods.
the link is this: https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/archive/master.zip which is the clone of the official github repository of this project at https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org
as long as you go there, there shouldn't be a problem. because you are downloading the source code that you are seeing.
in fact you can also check to see what the latest change was and when it occurred:
https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org/commits/master
as you can see the latest commit was from 2016 which means the source code is not changed ever since and has been used without any issues for more than 2 years.