Just create a new wallet and send everything to a new address. I don't think additional tools for this are needed.
On 2/23/13, Roy Badami <r...@gnomon.org.uk> wrote: > Has anyone been thinking about providing tools to allow users to cope > with key compromise - or more generally, to manage key retirement etc? > > atm, if you suspect that your keys may be liable to compromise then > what would you have to do? You'd have to create a new wallet (on a > new computer? or is it easy to have two coexisting installs on one > computer?) And then you'd have to make one or more payments from the > old wallet to the new wallet, to transfer the coins. It's a pain, and > you've lost your address book, your transaction history, etc. And > unless you keep the old wallet about, too, you're a bit stuck if > someone makes a payment to one of the old addresses. It's something > that most users would baulk at unless they're really sure they're at > significant risk. > > Of course, there are a spectrum of scenarios, ranging from having an > unencrypted wallet stolen by someone who knows what it is, through to > deciding that the passphrase you used to use when you only had a few > dollars worth of BTC maybe isn't good enough now you've got tens of > thousands of dollars worth of coins. Or maybe you have no reason to > suspect there is a risk of compromise, but just have a corporate key > management policy that recommends retiring keys after a period of > time. > > What would be really nice is for bitcoin to have a big key compromise > button, which would automatically transfer all coins to newly > generated addresses (optionally with a pause between generation and > transaction - to allow for a new wallet backup). Optionally, too, the > compromised/retired addresses could be marked with a flag such that if > someone sends coins to that address bitcoind immediately generates a > transaction to transfer the coins to address(es) which are good. > > I know deterministic wallets have many proponents - but personally I > like having a bag of keys - with the idea that over a period of time, > old keys will routinely be retired and their balances automatically > transfered to newly generated keys. If someone really manages to > crack the passphrase on that 10-year-old wallet backup they got hold > of, then if would be nice to minimise the damage they could do... > > And, of course, I want a big panic button that allows me to > automatically transfer all my coins to new addresses ASAP if I > suddenly do something stupid, like accidentally type my passphrase > into my IRC window :-) > > Thoughts? Is this functionality that there is any interest in > developing within the official client? If there is any interest in > this then obviously the first step would be to specify exactly what > functionality is wanted... > > roy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > -- Jorge Timón http://freico.in/ http://archive.ripple-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
