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# Offline Signing
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# Offline Transaction Signing
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Offline signing involves
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!!! warning
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This is **NOT** necessarily the recommended cold storage setup,
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due to high complexity, large room for errors and employing
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a general purpose computer for transaction signing (even if offline).
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* Creating an unsigned transaction on a view-only wallet
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Published for educational purposes only to understand "what would it take to sign offline".
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It is generally better to use a hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger.
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Opinions may vary.
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!!! note
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This is a guest tutorial contributed by [crocket](https://github.com/crocket).
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Offline transaction signing involves:
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* Creating an unsigned transaction on an online, view-only wallet
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* Moving the unsigned transaction to an offline machine
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* Signing the unsigned transaction on an offline wallet
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* Moving the signed transaction to a view-only wallet
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* Signing the unsigned transaction on an offline machine
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* Moving the signed transaction back to online, view-only wallet
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* Broadcasting the transaction
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It is securer than a hardware wallet connected to an online computer via a USB
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cable. It is also more versatile than a hardware wallet.
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## Creating a new offline wallet
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Constructing a new offline wallet is done by executing
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Constructing a new offline wallet is done by executing:
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```
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monero-wallet-cli --generate-new-wallet /path/to/wallet-file
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```
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on an offline machine. Record the seed on paper by executing `seed` on the
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offline wallet.
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on an offline machine. Record the seed on paper by executing `seed` on the offline wallet.
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## Creating a new offline wallet with seed offset passphrase
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```
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to restore from seed and seed offset passphrase. When you restore from seed, you
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can enter seed offset passphrase.
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can enter seed offset passphrase.
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Generate seed offset passphrase on an offline machine or with diceware because
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humans are bad at creating random passphrases.
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import_key_images /path/to/key_images
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```
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## Updating wallet softwares on an offline signing machine
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## Updating wallet software on an offline signing machine
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When you update an offline machine with offline wallets, you can't just
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connect the machine to the internet and update wallet softwares because
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connect the machine to the internet and update wallet software because
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doing so exposes offline wallets to the internet.
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Instead, boot OS installation media, wipe filesystems, and then connect
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## Restoring offline wallet
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After updating wallet softwares on an offline signing machine by wiping it out
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After updating wallet software on an offline signing machine by wiping it out
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and reinstalling everything, you have to restore offline wallet.
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Restore an offline wallet from seed (and seed offset passphrase) by executing
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- Verify: 'interacting/verify-monero-binaries.md'
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- Overview: 'interacting/overview.md'
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- Config file: 'interacting/monero-config-file.md'
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- Offline Signing: 'interacting/offline-signing.md'
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- monerod: 'interacting/monerod-reference.md'
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- monero-wallet-cli: 'interacting/monero-wallet-cli-reference.md'
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- monero-wallet-gui: 'interacting/monero-wallet-gui-reference.md'
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# - Remote Node: 'remote-node.md'
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# - Open Remote Node: 'open-remote-node.md'
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- Open Node + Tor Onion: 'running-node/open-node-tor-onion.md'
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- Cold storage:
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- Offline Transaction Signing: 'cold-storage/offline-transaction-signing.md'
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- Accepting Monero:
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- Overview: 'accepting-monero/overview.md'
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