Really nice tutorial, I actually have some tricks of my own I hope to share once I get into the normal forums

Great info!
Thanks

I think you can also move your wallet.dat to an encrypted volume to further increase security.

Isn't there any specific hardware for this?

i will try

Very informative!
Thanks

nothing is 100% secure

Excellent guide

A few questions.

(1) Say I already have my wallet on my mac.
I encrypted it. And backed it up. and copied the backup onto some flash drives.
Now I take the flash drive to another mac, and download another copy of the wallet program, I can open the encrypted data from the flash with my password and it will be able to spend it, right?

Or alternatively I'd be able on the other laptop to change the encryption key, so if I was confident that laptop had no malware,  on it I'd be pretty safe, right?

(2) After I do the above, put my data on the flash encrypted, how do I delete the data from the first machine, in case
its hacked by someone who knows my encryption key?

(3) Wouldn't the above protect me securely from someone later getting access with malware to the first machine?

(4) If I wanted to use the first machine, connected to the internet, to occasionally spend some bitcoins, how would I go about leaving it with a small portion of my stash, as a checking account as it were?

Just wondering what people think is a save amount of bitcoins to keep in a single wallet.

As a newbie I would say that if I had more than 100 bitcoins that I would start spreading them over several wallets.