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Zeokku Teensy 2.0 DIY Hardware Wallet

Latest release: ?? ( 28th February 2022 ) 🔍 Last analysed 21st May 2022 . Do-It-Yourself Project
14th February 2022

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The Analysis 

Background

The Teensy 2.0 is an Arduino compatible breadboard-friendly development board. Zeokku is an informal organization with a lot of projects including the Zeokku Teensy 2.0 DIY Hardware Wallet.

This is a recent do-it-yourself project posted on GitHub. Its aim is to use the Teensy into a key storage and signature generation device.

Product Description

Building

You will need Arduino IDE for building the firmware

Cryptography

The wallet uses Ed25519 signature scheme. The key is stored in encrypted form in EEPROM memory along with password seed and IV. The encryption method used is AES-256 with OFB mode. OFB mode is chosen due to the fact it cannot be parallelized for both decryption and encryption meaning to uncover full private key the attacker will have to act sequentially in any case. And because OFB uses exact same scheme for encryption and decryption we have some memory savings.

Analysis

This is an active do-it-yourself project.

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Verdict Explained

This project is not meant for non-technical end users.

As part of our Methodology, we ask:

DIY

Is the product meant to be ready for use "out of the box"?

If the answer is "no", we mark it as "Do-It-Yourself Project".

Many hardware wallet projects aim to be as transparent as possible by using only off-the-shelf hardware with an open design and open code. If the product reviewed is not available in an assembled form - if the user has to source his own hardware to then maybe solder and compile software to install on the device it falls into this category.