Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to share this important but STRESSFUL milestone for me LOL changing my keys!
Security Update: Keys Changed!
This has been something that I've been meaning to do for quite some time, since we flipped from the Steem chain over to this one back in 2020. It's been quite a ride since! I do know that when I was first starting out though, I did some foolish things with my account and password by entering it right in when I was logging in, instead of using my posting or active keys. I don't know, with the amount of data that transpires on the internet daily, if that is available somewhere but even if it is, now it won't make much of a difference for me!
One of the things that I found difficult was the challenge it took in order to find out how to perform the process. When one is looking for information on how to do this, naturally you search the chain to see what posts appear for the particular query you are interested in.
I will say that I am dismayed that it wasn't easier to find "changing keys" and have it be a relevant post! I feel bad that I didn't write the name of the person who helped steer me in the right direction down but it was someone that I have interacted with and that was good. They linked to another account that wrote a good tutorial but alas my browsing history clears on exit and I didn't drop a comment on the post like I should have thanking them. Mental note for next time I do something like this, thank the people that helped me out by reading their challenge! Lol
It's kind of fitting that this post is on the New Year I think! Let's start the year off fresh and on the right foot! I don't normally do New Years things but this is one that I can appreciate! I feel a lot better with the security of my account now that I have a much smaller amount of exposure with those keys and passwords over the internet. I might give them another change once I get some other things adjusted up, now that I'm familiar with how to perform the process. The familiarity was the trickiest part! Thankfully there are a number of services that we can use but for me, it was ol' faithful PeakD that pulled through with I think the best interface for doing that action.
With PeakD, you navigate to your wallet and then go to Account Actions on the right side there, and Keys & Permissions is the spot!
From there you want to go over to "Change Password" and it will bring you to the page that has lots of helpful information on it but if you're like me, you're sweating your ass off making sure you don't screw it all up hahaha.
Once I put in my Owner key, triple checked it was correct and re-read the post that I was using as a reference guide, I finally did it! Little did I know that there was an additional step. You are able to save the text file it generates and do other steps that you need to in order to secure it. I did all of this and went back once again over the steps lol I then took a deep breath and pulled the trigger! In a few milliseconds my account keys were changed! Damn that was stressful as SHIT!
Thankfully in following the tutorial and guide posts, I did perform the same steps with an alternate account of mine that I no longer use or care about so that helped. I was able to do it successfully on that account which then I used to replicate onto my main account soon after. If there is anything I can do to recommend to people, is that you do it in a test first! Make a brand new account if you have a little bit of time. Delegate some Resource Credits to it so that it has the power to perform these things and give it a try. I think that's so important with Crypto, is doing test transactions first before going ham and doing the big one! Many people are too used to having someone behind the scenes to help but alas, that's not always the case!
In the end, as stressful as it was, I knew that if somehow I did muck it up, I could recover my account as well which is good! I set my recovery account a long time ago which was a lot easier to do, so that step was done. Updating my keys was the latest improvement I've made to the security of my account and it felt great!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI.
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