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Second-Gen Hardware Wallets & Feature Support
Second-Gen Hardware Wallets & Feature Support
The new-generation Cobo Vaults are just as dedicated to air-gapping your private keys, but ditch durability features to be priced at 99…
Patrick Kim
Apr 28, 2020
Cobo Vault Product Design Principles
Cobo Vault Product Design Principles
Building a hardware wallet to protect your assets is very much like making a wooden bucket to hold water. Wooden Bucket Theory states that…
Lixin Liu
Apr 27, 2020
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Celebrating 3 Years of Security & Community
Celebrating 3 Years of Security & Community
Today Cobo Vault turns 3 years old! We’d like to share the amazing progress we made over the past year.
Cobo Vault
Jan 31
Blind Signing — A Security Black Hole for the Ethereum Community
Blind Signing — A Security Black Hole for the Ethereum Community
Are we securely signing the transaction?
Cobo Vault
Jan 14
Shipping Data Retention Change
Shipping Data Retention Change
Now Cobo Vault customers can ask for shipping data removal.
Cobo Vault
Dec 18, 2020
Cobo Vault Now Supports .crypto Blockchain Domains!
Cobo Vault Now Supports .crypto Blockchain Domains!
We are excited to announce that Cobo Vault users can send crypto using short human-readable names by Unstoppable Domains!
Cobo Vault
Oct 12, 2020
Why Cobo Vault implemented Shamir Backups
Why Cobo Vault implemented Shamir Backups
Cobo Vault has proudly implemented SatoshiLabs’ SLIP39 so that Shamir Backup is available on Cobo Vault now.
Cobo Vault
Sep 28, 2020
Ultimate Bitcoin Privacy Guide using TailsOS with built in Electrum Wallet and MyNode with Electrs…
Ultimate Bitcoin Privacy Guide using TailsOS with built in Electrum Wallet and MyNode with Electrs…
This setup works with both Cobo Vault’s Bitcoin-only and Multicoin firmwares.
Cobo Vault
Sep 21, 2020
How to verify the recovery phrase created by dice rolling
How to verify the recovery phrase created by dice rolling
When setting up your bitcoin wallet, the most crucial part is the process of creating your recovery phrase. Have you ever wondered where…
Cobo Vault
Jul 1, 2020
On Open Source and Transparency
On Open Source and Transparency
We’ve come a long way toward making our product as open source as possible since we last published this article describing why we thought…
Patrick Kim
Jun 29, 2020
Recover Phrase Horror Stories
Recover Phrase Horror Stories
Real life stories of the worst things that can happen to your bitcoin — and what you can do to prevent them from happening to you.
Patrick Kim
Jun 23, 2020
A Potential Solution to Fee Attacks
A Potential Solution to Fee Attacks
The latest Trezor’s firmware update raised a corner attack vulnerability with SegWit transactions. It is inherent in the design of SegWit…
Lixin Liu
Jun 4, 2020
Companion Apps: Why Mobile Beats Desktop and Web
Companion Apps: Why Mobile Beats Desktop and Web
Every hardware wallet needs to communicate with a companion app so it can sign transactions and send them to the blockchain, and a…
Cobo Vault
Apr 9, 2020
Web Authentication: A Counter to Supply Chain Attacks
Web Authentication: A Counter to Supply Chain Attacks
How can you verify your hardware wallet isn’t a fake?
Cobo Vault
Mar 26, 2020
Self-Destruct Mechanism’s Unique Defense Against Side-Channel Attacks
Self-Destruct Mechanism’s Unique Defense Against Side-Channel Attacks
Side-channel attacks are how most hardware wallets get hacked. Someone with enough time, resources and skill to scrutinize the device’s…
Cobo Vault
Mar 20, 2020
Should You Enable Passphrase Protection?
Should You Enable Passphrase Protection?
The Trezor hack publicized by Kraken Security Labs showed that it is possible to steal private keys from a Trezor in just 15 minutes with…
Cobo Vault
Feb 26, 2020
The Glacier Protocol and Using Dice To Generate Keys
The Glacier Protocol and Using Dice To Generate Keys
The Glacier Protocol is a storage scheme that takes the “not your keys, not your bitcoin” ethos to its literal extreme. While it’s a great…
Cobo Vault
Feb 12, 2020
Deep Cold Storage: How Beginners Can Swim in the Deep End
Deep Cold Storage: How Beginners Can Swim in the Deep End
Cold storage is great for avoiding online threats, but methods for storing the recovery phrase are often overlooked.
Cobo Vault
Jan 14, 2020
Secure Elements: The Last Line of Defense
Secure Elements: The Last Line of Defense
The recently passed Proof-of-Keys movement marked a silent revolution of individuals declaring financial independence by claiming…
Cobo Vault
Jan 6, 2020
Secure Elements: Harnessing A Force of Nature
Secure Elements: Harnessing A Force of Nature
Part of the brilliance of Bitcoin is its ability to harness the infinite power of randomness to disguise information for security purposes…
Cobo Vault
Dec 26, 2019
Air-Gapped Computers and Phones vs Hardware Wallets: What’s the Difference?
Air-Gapped Computers and Phones vs Hardware Wallets: What’s the Difference?
Research suggests air-gapped computers and phones are dangerously vulnerable to attack in ways you wouldn’t want your cold wallet to be.
Cobo Vault
Dec 17, 2019
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