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    August 19, 2017, 04:53:26 PM
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    I have always wanted to do a vanitygen for my cold storage, but I am too paranoid the program would have some sort of built in preset way to make an address the creator also has keys for. How am I supposed to know for sure? I just wish I could trust do it trust-less.
    If you're totally paranoid: use split-key:
    Instructions
    I can just create an address, and send you the private key. This means you have to trust me, my computer, my cat, both our email clients, and by definition it can no longer be used for cold storage. So let's not. Instead, use split key:
    Step 1: Goto https://www.bitaddress.org/ move your mouse/type in the field until it shows 100% and wait a second.
    Step 1.5: Optional but highly recommended. Download the page, verify the download and run it locally*.
    Step 2: Click Vanity Wallet click the Generate button next to Generate your "Step1 Key Pair"
    Step 3: Reply to this thread with your public key and the prefix for your address. Save the private key somewhere safe. You will need it later when I generated your partial private key. Also, let me know if your preferred prefix is case sensitive, or any case is okay (the latter is much faster)
    Step 4: Once you received your partial private key, go back to bitaddress.org and click on Vanity Wallet.
    Step 5: Go to step 2 Calculate your vanity wallet. In the first field put the private key you saved and in the second field put the partial private key I gave you. Click Add and Calculate Vanity Wallet
    Step 6: Copy the Vanity Private Key (WIF) and import it into your preferred wallet.
    Credits to shorena for most of these instructions!
    If something doesn't work as expected, have a look at this example.
    In Step 3, you run vanitygen by yourself, and use your own publick key.

    You can also use split key if you don't trust the computer that you use to run Vanitygen.

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