Starting this thread in hopes that it will become a place to share our ideas about feature requests and other ideas to add to Prime as part of it’s future development.
I love that my Passport gen 2 looks like a simple phone at first glance. Would be awesome to have an option to disguise the Prime as a smart phone, for the times when we are traveling cross border, etc.
Could look like the lock screen of a phone and have a numeric keypad for unlock. A plausible deniability “decoy code” would open an app that looked like a smartphone with no service/sim inserted & maybe a few contact addresses. Alternatively, our Prime pin would open the Prime OS for normal use.
Cool idea. For cross-border specifically, I’d be wary of making it look like a phone. Any govt that might confiscate a hww might also confiscate your “phone”. Maybe it could look like a game device or something. An e-reader for ebooks.
@Colonizer good point and great idea! A gaming device is even better.
Could put some playable basic game apps on it like brick, snake, Tetris etc.
The pin entry could be masked as a simple calculator app, or even more discreetly disguised by viewing and then clicking on high scores from a selection of #1-#10, with #10 representing “0” in the pin.
Good idea with the thread! Here goes my idea:
Can an app on the prime emulate a USB keyboard and type in a password stored on the prime into a PC/server? This would be massively useful for strong full-disk encryption and would allow a sysadmin to securely carry around different looong passwords for different servers and have them typed in by just plugging in a male USB-C to male USB-A cable from the Prime to whatever PC they want to unlock.
No special drivers are required on the device to be unlocked.
I assume it would not be hard to write a Prime app to store a couple of long passwords in a secure manner, but will the app be able to emulate a USB device to type them in? If so, this might be the killer feature!
Instead of storing multiple seeds on the prime I would rather the ability to scan in multiple separate xpubs from various seeds you may have so the prime can be one unified device I can use to verify all my addresses. The ability to name the xpubs would be good too.
Love the NFC backup solution. Would be awesome if the replacement 3 card packs are available in different colors. For those of us who purchase more than one Prime, this would make organizing multiple Shamir backups much easier. For example 3 white cards for Prime A, 3 black cards for Prime B, and 3 silver cards for Prime C. (Maybe a Bitcoin orange for fun! )
That’s a nice idea, and I’m sure there will be lots of desire for multiple card designs in the future. At launch though, you’ll be able to label the faraday sleeves to avoid confusion.
(edit: someone already asked my first question) Can it act as an HID (specifically a keyboard) to act as either a rubber ducky or a cold password manager? Also, it says it can manage tokens for things like U2F, but can it also handle the full feature-set of a Yubikey (specifically challange/response)? Same goes for allowing unlocking/decrypting to be done via challenge/repsonse instead of the cards that come with it.
HID/Rubberducky is possible but not planned at this present time.
Yes to full Yubikey / FIDO2 support
Battery is for two reasons: 1) We are pursuing a water resistance certification, so need to use some semi-permanent gasketing, and 2) Size. This is how you achieve smaller form factor devices with tighter tolerances.
However we have already discussed a DIY replacement kit being available in the future. Due to the device design, the task of replacement will be much easier than a modern smart phone.
I just realized login countdown feature of cold card is a breakthrough in crypto security
STUFFS AT HOME -
hardware wallet with 28day login counter
passphrase memorized
passphrase written on metal
AT BANK LOCKER
SEEDPHRASE ON METAL
ANOTHER HW WITH SEEDPHRASE IN IT, WITHOUT THE TIMER
AT ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER’S HOUSE-
PASSPHRASE METAL BACKUP (IN SERIALIZED TAMPER BAG)
case1: 5$ wrencher can’t steel funds because of 28days delay
he might take away the passphrase and device( but within 28days the real user or fam can move funds to a new seed )
and
banks can’t turn rogue and spend unilaterally
I was just requesting similar delayed login counter (customizable) on the foundation passport aswell
Sorry for the slow response, it got lost in my notifications. It’s a feature we will put some consideration to after we launch. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks for the response.
I highly recommend foundation to re considering their opinion on duress/wipe pin where a user should be able to enter certain pins to wipe the device completely, it might complicate the memorization, But an advanced user should have the freedom to make his own decisions !, will there be such option in prime?
We do not have any plans for duress PINs on Prime at this time. The device will erase data (but not permanently disable itself) after 10 incorrect PIN attempts.
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