Quote from: fluffypony on July 27, 2014, 07:26:52 PM

Quote from: Its About Sharing on July 27, 2014, 06:58:21 PM

I'm really interested here in Open Source Hardware. Guys - anyone have any more information here?
With the NSA revelations, I really don't trust any of the hardware manufacturers (but who does?)

IAS

Not really, you still have to trust someone to build that hardware.

There's a running joke when discussing "secure" systems, that if you want it to be "truly" secure you have to design and build the hardware yourself, and then write the OS yourself. And it has to have no exploitable bugs. In other words, good luck with that;)

When you take usability into account (presumably you don't want to jump through tons of hoops for every message you send and every penny you spend), the best you can do is exercise a moderate amount of caution, and use older, known cryptography on older, known hardware.

Thanks for the information.

(Anyone) - Any suggestion on a small and cheap netbook or the like, to be used as an offline machine?
I will be using a USB stick with the wallet generator on that and just print off it.

Thx in advance,
EMS