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Board Hardware wallets
Merits 6 from 2 users
Re: Thoughts about Passport hardware wallet
by
n0nce
on 28/07/2022, 22:18:22 UTC
⭐ Merited by dkbit98 (3) ,vapourminer (3)
Another idea is stripping Envoy off Google stuff and compiling it yourself.
https://github.com/Foundation-Devices/envoy/
Oh nice I didn't see that, so they released first version of Envoy app in public and it's out of beta testing?
Apparently yes, I can see it on all major platforms, as well as the GitHub repo for the source code.
Apple AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/envoy-by-foundation/id1584811818
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foundationdevices.envoy
F-Droid: https://foundationdevices.com/fdroid/

I like how below the download links / badges, it says 'Or download directly on our Github.'
I'm not sure how it works on iOS, but it seems you can download and install the .ipa file; I suppose it has to be sideloaded (signed with your Apple ID) using something like https://altstore.io/ (AltServer).

I don't know if you heard anything about latest bug found in Coldcard mk4 wallet with their Virtual Disk, and since Passport wallet is forked from older Coldcard I am wondering if they are using anything similar.
Maybe  am naive to say this, but I think that Passport showed to be much less affected with serious bugs so far, but I am not saying they are perfect.
Actually I'm not sure it's even accurate to say they are forked from ColdCard. It appears to me that they are definitely based on Trezor (so is ColdCard, as far as I know - however no matches for *trezor* in their repo) and may have taken some ColdCard things here and there.
I remember that ColdCard was upset about Passport supposedly being a CC fork, but if I roughly compare the two projects' structures, they look very different. A quick diff over both projects (latest commits) also shows no single identical file - obviously, this would also be the case if Passport was based on CC and changed every single file between the fork and now.

The Makefiles also look very different, so even if it was forked from ColdCard, it has diverged so much that the same bugs might indeed not be present on Passport. But I wouldn't bet on it, either.. Grin