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Re:How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop by siculars on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:29AM (#15858771)
I appreciate everything you just said and agree that this could work well for some people. On the other hand, reading it through the eyes of the 99% of people I know who can barely check their email, everything you said may as well be written in Klingon. It is simply too difficult for most people to understand.
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Re:How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop by prawn on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:17AM (#15858981)
It's not an unsolvable problem with good apps/software though. A key as a sequence of characters is confusing, but depicting an actual key cut in half, that needs to be combined with another, would make sense to people.

As was said elsewhere, a lot of this will come as the space matures.

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Re:How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop by chairmanwow on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:34AM (#15858791)
Cryptography is a necessary lesson that we need to teach in 2017. Lowest common denominator is a hard threshold to design security for.
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