AirGap, a self-custody bitcoin and crypto pockets with a storage utility, introduced right now its newest launch. In replace v3.11.0, AirGap applied assist for SegWit for Bitcoin (BTC), improved secret import and entropy assortment through cube rolls.
Segregated Witness (SegWit) is an replace to the Bitcoin protocol that changed the way in which knowledge was saved within the blockchain. This replace brings a number of advantages, together with elevated scalability, quicker transaction occasions, and, most vital, decrease transaction charges.
To make use of SegWit with AirGap, present customers of BTC have to generate a brand new tackle in AirGap Vault and ship the funds to the brand new SegWit tackle.
Different Enhancements Embrace:
Entropy assortment through cube rolls and coin flips
Secret era with cube rolls and coin flips is a safety function to generate safe mnemonics through the use of a selected sequence of inputs for entropy. The benefit of that is that customers can acquire their entropy with none digital assist from the inbuilt system RNG (random quantity turbines).
On the import web page, there’s now a sophisticated toggle. Customers can then select cube rolls or coin flips as a means of producing a mnemonic.
New safe mnemonic import function (inbuilt keyboard)
The AirGap group has now changed the conventional system keyboard with its personal digital keyboard.
This produces benefits corresponding to:
The keyboard cannot report/save a mnemonic (some system keyboards try this for spell checking and ship every thing entered to a server — this isn’t good for safety). AirGap’s keyboard doesn’t use any exterior dependencies and is included with the app.
The brand new keyboard permits solely legitimate phrases from the BIP39 checklist to be imported. So there may be no extra typos / double areas, and so on.
The keyboard has BIP39 phrases autocomplete for quicker imports.
There’s a “scramble” button that shuffles the order of the letters on the keyboard, bettering the safety if somebody is trying over their shoulders.
There’s a “conceal” button that masks the mnemonic that was already entered, bettering the safety if somebody watches over one’s shoulder.
BIP85 baby mnemonic administration
When producing a BIP85 baby mnemonic, it’s now potential to immediately import that baby mnemonic as a secret into AirGap. So customers don’t have to write down it down earlier than importing it.
“The safety features of AirGap are regularly evolving, and along with the 2 new safety features said above, we additionally assist the PSBT customary (BIP-174), which suggests the Vault is now suitable with different watch-only wallets, although that is presently in beta.”– The AirGap Staff