A simple utility to scramble/unscramble cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases
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This is not for everyone. Use it if you have trouble trusting your own shadow and you know what you are doing.
DO NOT use this in your regular computer. Choose one of the following security measures to prevent having your secrets stolen by any malware/spyware you might have running on your system:
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Boot a Linux live CD, download this app, disconnect from the internet, then run it.
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Run this in an air-gapped machine that will never connect to the internet
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If you intend to connect your computer to the internet after running this software format your hard drive and reinstall the operating system from scratch.
The key takeway here is to NEVER use this app while connected to the internet and ensure your system never connects to the internet after you used this app.
ENSURE YOU TEST EVERYTHING. After generating the fake seed phrase and writing it in a piece of paper, try to recover the original seed.
THIS IS NOT ENCRYPTION. The solution presented here simply makes it extremely hard for another party to recover your original seed phrase if they find your fake seed. Keep this fake seed safe and secure as if it were your actual seed phrase.
I created this tool for myself to give me peace of mind writing down seed phrases for my crypto currency wallets - and that includes hardware wallets.
Whenever you setup a hardware wallet or use a software-based wallet to store cryptocurrency, you will be presented with a list of words that give access to your funds in the blockchain.
Writing down this list of words means that if anyone finds these words, they'll be able to restore your wallet and steal your funds.
Give this application your seed phrase with a password and a magic number. It will create a "fake" seed phrase which you can note down.
If you want to restore your original seed phrase, give this application the "fake" seed phrase, the password and the magic number.
It's dead simple to use, and no one will ever be able to figure out the actual seed phrase of your wallets.
The app is a single screen that looks like this:
In the example above, we assume your wallet gave the following seed phrase:
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You can input a password & a magic number to generate a fake seed phrase:
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You can note that down in a piece of paper instead of the original seed phrase, then recover the original by unscrambling the fake seed with the password and magic number you used.
If anyone finds the fake seed phrase they won't be able to steal your funds.
Simply download the latest release from the releases page and move it to some device with NO INTERNET CONNECTION. You want to do this offline.
Unzip the SeedScramble.zip file and double-click the run command to launch it:
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Make sure your system will never connect to the internet while and after you use this software.