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Re:Show HN: Weekend Project – A Stellar blockchain wallet on... by TekMol on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:04PM (#17870775)

    Using the standard stellar library to connect
    with stellar is secure and transparent enough
How would one know that there are no backdoors or bugs in the library?
Re:Show HN: Weekend Project – A Stellar blockchain wallet on... by brown-dragon on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:54PM (#17872415)
There could be bugs, of course, but the library is open source and developed by the Stellar network team.

Of course you are right in a sense - the core team also should not be blindly trusted. But, because your account is managed by the wallet and stays local to your machine, there is nothing much the library _can_ do IMHO.

Re:Show HN: Weekend Project – A Stellar blockchain wallet on... by TekMol on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:27PM (#17872610)

    there is nothing much the library _can_ do IMHO
It's code that runs on your machine. What would prevent it to do whatever it wants? Like sending your private keys somewhere? Or using a weak form of crypto to create them so that somebody can guess them?
Re:Show HN: Weekend Project – A Stellar blockchain wallet on... by brown-dragon on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:40PM (#17873530)
That's an excellent point. The only place the library has access to the private keys are during account creation and message signing. Perhaps I should implement both directly in the wallet so it's visible and clear to everyone.