firoorg / firo

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[firo-qt] Consider not forcing people to write down their seed manually #1262

Open erciccione opened 1 year ago

erciccione commented 1 year ago

When launching firo-qt for the first time, the user is asked to save the mnemonic seed, but it's not possible to copy-paste it and the only way to save it is to manually type/write it somewhere. After this step the user is asked to type the seed manually, to confirm they have saved it.

While this is the most secure approach, as it assures the user has actually saved the seed somehow, it's also a time-consuming and boring process. The drawbacks i see are:

It worth investigating different approaches that could be a good compromise between security and usability. For example:

reubenyap commented 1 year ago

Makes sense. I'll put in the list!

mobias17 commented 1 year ago

Fully agree with @erciccione . As an addition to the possibility of copy and paste, maybe also an "copy to clipboard" icon to right if the seed phrase window to ensure that all was copied.