bitcoin/bitcoin.org — pull request #118 by saivann (2013-04-04 05:21:58+00:00)
Title: add secure-your-wallet page

With very similar goals then the "You need to know" page, I produced a "secure your wallet" page in order to give more serious advises and help users to adopt good security practices. In the hope that this can contribute in reducing insecure setups and loss of funds over time.

This page is replacing (and recycling) the little box in the "you need to know" page and is adding the following content :

- More advises and warnings concerning backups.
- More advises and warnings concerning encryption.
- Concrete and prudent introduction to offline wallets.
- Introduction to offline transaction signature with Armory
- Explanations and warnings about using a wallet in a temporary environment
- Better explanation about the change addresses, private keys and deterministic wallets in relation with backups.
- Introduction about multi-signature against theft.
- Quick advise about mobiles that are easy to steal.
- Improved general redaction

Result can be seen live there :
http://bitcoinsecwallet.zapto.org/en/you-need-to-know
http://bitcoinsecwallet.zapto.org/en/secure-your-wallet

The content of this page is very sensitive and I took a lot of time to proof-read it. But I think it requires many ACK from developers before we choose to merge it.