Issue a warning about security on the front page
Gaff opened this issue · comments
Could you put a warning about using insecure passwords or a link to a wiki or similar prominently on the main page? The rationale being that many users are under the mistaken belief that brainwallets are a safe / sensible way to store bitcoins only to have them stolen.
I realise that brainwallet is just a tool, and it's up to users to use responsibly. However some sort of warning / guidelines to new users would be good for the bitcoin community as a whole and woulc cost very little.
+1
Meh. Thanks for not mentioning "rainbow tables". ECDSA is pretty slow as is.
Issued warning about security in a whole two places (placeholder and tooltip) cd1e6c4
This is bad advice: "Use entire original sentence that does not appear in any song or literature, not a 8-10 char password". The fact is that any brain-generated pass-phrase is not secure. The human brain cannot generate enough entropy to be safe. Also the tool-tip is hardly 'prominent'.
I appreciate you putting the effort into this and I'm not having a go :). However personally I think you can't be too careful when it comes to warning people about unsafe practices with storing bitcoins.
My opinion is that if you aren't doing it properly, you're morally responsible for a potential loss.
"Survival of the fittest" isn't the moral paradigm people operate under.