Quote from: Blue Tyrant on March 05, 2018, 11:12:05 AM

For starters I'm not exactly sure if this is the right board but I feel it's more of a technical discussion regarding the security of a wallet seed and private keys (not to mention I don't want this to fall into the incessant cesspool of worthless megathreads preyed on by bounty hunters and other forum abusers and would rather see more quality discussion).

So back to the main question. Since early times the standard advice regarding passwords was to not write them down or rather to atleast avoid writing it down. A mainstream media article about this would be say this How To Geek article (https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/31259/ask-how-to-geek-whats-wrong-with-writing-down-your-password/) which is rather adamant writing down your password may not be the best thing to do.

However then we move over to crypto. A large number of wallets and sites urge users to write down the passwords. To quote an example:

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Anytime a wallet is set up, users are provided with a unique recovery seed composed of anywhere from 1224 randomized words. You are urged to write this recovery seed down somewhere safe and to never post it online.

Source: https://blockonomi.com/keep-recovery-seed-safe/

Heck there's papers wallets which is basically the even more advanced version of that.

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If enough care is taken does the medium of storage matter? A paper is just as easy to steal details from as compared to a notepad file provided there's physical access though I do understand the average user is at much greater risk to malware than forced instrusion
Wouldn't a air-gapped machine with an encrypted drive or atleast the file containing the seed secured by a competent passphrase be significantly more secure than something like a paper which can easily be lost or otherwise compromised

The simple answer would be simplicity.

If you want more security there is an option to generate the seeds with a password (Im not sure thats in core though). That way people would need both to generate your private keys.

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