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Board Wallet software
Re: secure private key handling
by
btchris
on 22/07/2014, 22:23:24 UTC
There is nothing on it... and until I received funds there, every app will have had plenty of time to persist the key, wont it?

Probably true if it's a human generating the key, but what if it's a website application that's generating the key? I could easily see a case where the key is generated, persisted only to the disk cache, then a page with the address is sent to some user, and then a crash occurs...

Of course servers shouldn't be generating private keys at all, they should either be using a cache of public addresses or generating addresses deterministically from a master public key.