Protect your seed with a PIN
README
- Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins.
- You Are Your Own Worst Enemy
- KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
- Seed to PIN
You know what it means, you own your keys, but sometimes I feel like my keys own me, obsess me. That's the burden of being in charge of your operational security (opsec). It can cause enough FUD to be overwhelming. What if someone gain access to my 24 word seed? Where to write them? Where to hide them? What if they get destroyed? Who should knows where they are? What if I forgot where they are? What if I die? What if...
Let's start with your 24 words written somewhere, if someone find them, you're screwed. You could scramble them a bit, permuting the last and the first word maybe? or permuting the 12 first with the twelves last? still too obvious, need something stronger what if permutting odd and even... maybe I can remenber the 3 first and write down the others... this is only growing complexity, and can quickly become a mess for yourself and the perenity of your coins.
This tool is my humble shoot at solving this problem. What if you could hide your seed in plain sight? Think about the credit card in your wallet, the safe in your basement, your hardware wallet in your drawer. All these security devices are protected by a PIN code. We don't have to reinvent the wheels, simply mix something you have + something you know.
What you have: a very long list of words, one per line, numbered.
What you know: the lines number where to find your words.
Example:
You chose the PIN code: 42, 21, 69
And a list length of 256 words
The generated words list will have 3 group of 8 blanks lines for you to write down your words.
Now you can store your seed wherever you want (copies to the family, bank, even on computer and cloud)
knowing
that it is harmless without the proper PIN code.