How A Wallet is Born
Back in time to 2016, a few coin enthusiasts were grouped to develop a crypto wallet prototype. Those coin enthusiasts had nothing much different but more than decade experiences on making security keys and hardware encryption products. The crypto wallet prototype they have built was based on Electrum and was for internal use only. Because there was no wallet was perfect enough in 2016 to convince those security experts to put their crypto assets in it.
“If we clearly know that our wallet is safer, to be honest, why don’t we sell it. I mean, more importantly, why not showing the industry how a secure hardware wallet should be? Like an example.” Says by one of the developer.
Time flies to the end of 2017. The team was summoned again, for doing this — making an example crypto wallet for the public. And this is how JuBiter was established.
Making a hardware wallet is hard. Making a mature one for the public is even harder. The respectable pioneers like Trezor and Ledger had shown their concerns and measures on many critical weak points of a hardware wallet. Their contributions have significant value for the entire industry as well as for the cryptocurrency holders. But still, JuBiter has to move steps further on the way of security.
The SE and the Circuit Design
JuBiter team is good at hardware, like really good. Cause the company behind
JuBiter, Feitian Technologies, had provided hundreds of millions of security key, tokens, and smart cards to customers all over the world.
“Keep it simple, keep it straightforward.”
This is the spirit of the hardware design of JuBiter wallet. The more complex the design is, the more potential vulnerabilities may exist. There is a prevailing opinion in JuBiter team — There can be only one place for storing data and running applications, which is the secure element. In this way, all potential vulnerabilities can be addressed in a single location — The secure element, which is the toughest part in most security hardware products. Once you have sealed all windows, the only thing you need to do to make your home safe is to find the right door. JuBiter finally chose Infineon CC EAL6+ SE as the heart of the wallet. Till here, the hardware part is done.
Native or JAVA
A native OS reduces up to 80% of R&D cost with better stability and performance.
“We choose JAVA. Because we can.” JuBiter team says.
JAVA OS offers much better flexibility by allowing users to manage the application running in the device without touching any secret stored in the SE. JuBiter develops its JAVA OS based on FT JCOS, a CC EAL5+ smartcard OS from its mother company Feitian.
Battery, Bluetooth, and Phone
After all, building a wallet is not a pure security competition. People are using it.
“They made wallets fitting in my pocket. But I don’t have a computer in my pocket to use with it.” Feedback from a crypto player.
Therefore, JuBiter team set the major use case on phones. Letting people use the wallet anytime, anywhere wirelessly became the main mission of JuBiter PM.
The Final Product
After a year development, JuBiter wallet has been officially released globally. There is still a long way to go for JuBiter to become a well trusted, a place that people dare to keep their money in.
About JuBiter
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