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So protecting your coins relies upon trusting the websites WalletGenerator.net and MyEtherWallet.com ?
by joosters 9y ago
So protecting your coins relies upon trusting the websites WalletGenerator.net and MyEtherWallet.com ?
- andrem 9y agoYou can do your own: https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/MyEtherWallet https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/MyEtherWallet or https://github.com/MichaelMure/WalletGenerator.net https://github.com/MichaelMure/WalletGenerator.net Recently there has been an influx of scam attacks using forged myetherwallet URLs in all the altcoin slack channels. Using your own is really the better way to go about this. The article mentions ways to run both solutions offline but going to the source is probably the safest way.
- haburka 9y agoYou download and unzip files from those websites and then run them with the Internet turned off. You can inspect the source code to make sure it's ok. This article is targeted at non-technical users so a solution that relies on downloaded software is good enough. If you'd like a better solution, then I'm sure some research would serve you well.
- joosters 9y agoRealistically, we both know that hardly anyone will check the source code, let alone be capable of spotting security problems or backdoors. Unplugging your machine from the network doesn't protect you either - who knows if the software leaves some temp files around containing your private keys?