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Dedicated Monero Hardware Wallet

michael posted this 6 years ago

michael | 6 years ago

Version: 1.0
Date: 15 September 2017
Name: RFC-HWALLET-1
Author: Michael Schloh von Bennewitz
Contact: [email protected]
IRC-contacts: msvb-lab, msvb-mob
Title: Dedicated Monero Hardware Wallet
Related to: RFC-HWALLET-2, RFC-HWALLET-3, RFC-HWALLET-4
Location: https://forum.getmonero.org/8/funding-required/88149/dedicated-monero-hardware-wallet/
Crosslink: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/6urao7/ffs_for_dedicated_monero_hardware_wallet/  
Crosslink: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/6zm56g/new_version_of_proposal_88149_taking_feedback/
Crosslink: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/70bpul/proposal_88149_entered_funding_required/

Get Monero Hardware Wallets

"There are currently no hardware wallets available at this time. Please check back for updates."
- https://getmonero.org/downloads/#hardware, August 2017

It's time for the Monero community to come together and realize the goal of a hardware wallet!

Status

The status of this proposal is:

PENDING FUNDING PLEDGES

Change Log

In reverse cron order.

20170915  Publish version 1.0
          Added sketchy RF integration
          Explained schedule of procurement
          Clarified work to reverse engineer
          Mentioned possible Shmoocon promotion
          Removed nonhardware based requirements
          Detailed role of microscopy in workflow
          Included more secure element details
          Zero sum corrected budget for lab
          Added plan column for FFS release

20170913  Publish version 0.9
          Added copyright statement
          Added airgap feature option
          Clarified choice of License
          Slight changes to the budget
          Slight changes to requirements
          Added related project content
          New Defunding Option section
          New Proposal Ownership section
          New Legal Summary section
          New requested Intention section
          Documented outreach to Gemalto
          Emphasized hardware focus and license

20170912  Publish version 0.8
          Nonfunctional Requirements additions
          Requirements 'note' reminder
          Time floor function removed
          Secure Element development
          New Scope Creep section
          Project plan adjustment
          Budget detailed design
          XMR rate changed to 67
          Workflow development

20170830  Publish version 0.7
          Functional Requirements additions
          Budget clarification
          New Workflow section

20170818  Publish revision 0.6

20170816  Proposal creation

20170801  DefCon Genesis

Monero Hardware Wallet

Requirements

Note: PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE DELIVERABLE (SEE SECTIONS 'DELIVERABLES' AND 'SCOPE CREEP') IS A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN. Other efforts exist to produce related deliverables like bootloader, firmware, enclosures, branding, modding, and derivatives.

Nonfunctional Requirements

  • Quality: The project is bodacious (bold and audacious)
  • Usability: Simple and intuitive, one hour learning time
  • Availability: Build your own and commercial models supported
  • Accessibility: One (of two total) button operation
  • Verification: Standard on board private display
  • Legal clarity: Avoidance of NDA and closed source terms
  • Legal freedom: Patent treaty via Open Invention Network
  • Open natured: All assembled parts ship with datasheets
  • Regulatory compliance: Attention to RoHS certification
  • Invulnerability: Prohibitive intrusion effort or time
  • Data integrity: Selective verification by SE cryptoanalysis
  • Reliability: MTBF to be determined and documented
  • Operating constraints: High firmware compatibility
  • Size constraints: To be determined after enclosure research
  • Resilience: Broad degree (voltage and temperature) of operation
  • Interoperability: Provision to interface with software wallets
  • Capacity: Balance between feature storage size and transistor constraint
  • Supportability: Supported through existing (forum, IRC, Reddit) channels
  • Privacy: Timer equipped for dimming, and narrow viewing angle
  • Documentation: Camera ready collection of developer documents
  • HW testability: Unpopulated debug (JTAG or similar) headers
  • FW testability: Bootloader and sample firmware templates
  • Extensibility: Open design with a common EDA CAD application
  • Marketability: Support for product design and management efforts
  • Derivability: Variation by unpopulating an overextended design
  • Portability: Portions of design forked from other projects

Functional Requirements

  • Power supply
    • 5V USB connection
    • 3V3 Battery housing
  • Security design criteria
    • Crypto: Private key in secure element¹
    • Potting: Epoxy compound (optional²)
    • Production: Non-RST debug removal
    • Airgap: Disconnected media option³
  • CPA and glitch defense
    • Dual MCU comparison circuit⁴
    • ...or external secure element⁴
  • Invasive border search protection
    • Passphrase plausible deniability
    • 48V supercap discharge circuit
    • ...or puncture destruction kit⁵
  • Intrusion detection criteria⁶
    • Ambient light interruption
    • Mechanical switch interruption
  • Physical stability
    • High rated semiconductors
    • Moisture ingress nanocoating
  • Developer friendliness
    • Development: JTAG breakout
    • Pogo pin harness option
  • User friendliness
    • Replaceable battery
    • Replaceable optional media⁴
    • Screen sized to allow QR
    • Possible RF integration³
      ...unless we want to avoid BlueBorne

¹ Depending on availability of supporting IC
² How to apply potting is documentation only
³ Research prone feature, may yield suboptimal
⁴ Depending on results of cost and size analysis
⁵ Destruction by puncture is documentation only
⁶ Independent circuit for optional model extension

Secure Element

A secure element (SE) serves to verify firmware at boot via standard DSA or ECDSA, and hopefully a vendor of hardware key storage is found that supports Monero's ED25519 elliptic curve. A private key in a real (with lock features) secure element means that even rogue firmware cannot access the key.

It seems this would be the first design to ever implement such a high degree of wallet security, but unfortunately ECDSA support depends on the hardware vendor. This is a formidable challenge.

Degree of Success

Several weeks of research will determine which of the desired secure element supported implementations are realistic. A worst case scenario is that ED25519 is completely unsupported and must be processed by firmware in SRAM, the same thing that Ledger and Trezor do. Preliminary research suggests the possibility that ARM CryptoCell circuits support hardware ED25519 calculations with a unknown (possibly no locking supported) key deployment method.

Vendor Proposal

Discussion (even before this proposal concludes) is ongoing with Microchip, Atmel, and Gemalto. We want them to produce integrated circuits according to the very easy to meet requirements.

Other Requirements

  • Review of requirements from the existing designs of Ledger, Trezor, and KeepKey
  • Blend of features from peripheral devices like Opendime, Mooltipass, and Cryptosteel

Deliverables

The Monero hardware wallet is a printed circuit board design resembling the Ledger or Trezor wallet PCBs. It may be slightly larger in size and composed of fewer (broader reach) or more (optimal electronic density) substrate layers.

Please see related RFC-HWALLET-X proposals for product design, firmware implementation, and other non hardware design work.

Scope Creep

The project is particularly vulnerable to scope creep. Votes or attempts at consensus on how to react to changing requirements are not planned. Rather, a compromise (maintaining pace of progress) is reached by attending nearly all Monero development meetings and reporting accordingly.

If contributors are interested in applied agile methods to track scope, then this can be arranged once agreement is reached in meetings.

Author

Michael is a computer scientist undergraduate with 15 years of industry (software, telecom, embedded systems) experience. He trains groups at Black Hat [1] and produces (not for sale) hardware in his circuits lab. He worked with the inventor of mod_ssl at Cable & Wireless, collaborates with WolfSSL on Atmel/Microchip IC to low powered ESP8266 platform porting, as well as MbedTLS on Atmel secure element provisioning.

He is a cryptocurrency novice of Ethereum, Bitcoin, and now Monero. He has earned the trust of his students using custom derivatives of Bus Pirate, FRDM, and NodeMCU shield devices, as well as larger companies (references on request) assigning first generation SBC hardware shield extensions on contract.

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/us-17/training/analyzing-an-iot-empire.html

Privacy

If you look carefully, you will find the privacy sensitive software development Michael has done for high profile groups.

Motivation

Michael is motivated to complete this project in order to have a Monero hardware wallet of his own, improve PCB design skills using a secure element, contribute to Monero enthusiasm, and become more active in the Monero community (by owning coins and IRC communicating frequently.)

Rejection

If all related FFS proposals are rejected, then Michael will probably be a Monero currency owner but cannot afford to contribute software, firmware, or hardware logic.

Defunding

Portions of the production machinery budget may be defunded, leading to the following added risk:

  • Unexpected scope reverse creep
  • Loss of miniaturization requirements
  • Loss of component choice requirements
  • Reduction or cancellation of samples distribution
  • Reduction or cancellation of promotion deliveries
  • Fewer test generations leading to reduced QA work
  • Introduction of new budget items to fund assembly
  • Failure of any process requiring quick or accurate manufacturing

The actions and features at risk would still be worked on a best effort basis. To be clear, this proposal has no defunded budget items and production machinery will be procured in the most expedient and inexpensive way.

Relations

Some RFC-HWALLET-X proposals are complementary and others mutually exclusive. In the best case, this pilot project will serve to launch and support other (conference badge, sponsored swag, product integrations, university research) related projects.

Budget

Production machinery

XMR Item
5 Qinsi QS-5100 reflow oven
45 Analog stereo microscope
150 NeoDen4 Pick and Place
200 Total machinery

Research equipment

XMR Item
1 Trezor
1 KeepKey
4 Ledgers
6 Chipwhisp
2 Launchpad
<1 Opendime
15 Total research

Passive and IC components

XMR Item
20 Total components

Consumable materials

XMR Item
25 Paste, substrate, nozzles

Facilities and services

XMR Item
2 Makerspace entry
68 Workspace rental
12 Datacenter, telco
80 Total facilities

Travel and promotion

XMR Item
0 Included in other items

Trips to manufacturing locations (Shenzhen or Hangzhou) will not be taken unless necessary, for example when a flight is cheaper than postal shipping or acting as a courier yields a customs free import. In those cases, trip cost is absorbed by the budget stated resource price (with nothing new to add.)

Worktime reimbursement

XMR Item
490 Lost contracts reimbursement⁷

⁷ Estimated by crossing vectors (6 months lapse, proximity obligation, hour loss) and considering used nonworktime procurements.

XMR Volatility

A 20% buffer is in place to lower risk of production loss or delay. This is partly due to Michael's lack of crypto trading experience and partly due to natural monetary fluctuation.

Total budget

XMR Item
996 Fulfillment of requirements

Note: The base rate is recalculated (95 € + 40 €) ÷ 2 resulting in 1XMR = 67EUR €. The previous base rate was 40EUR € before fluctuation and the current price is 80EUR €.

Existing Resources

A number of machines is already available including a Voltera V-One substrate printing machine, JND-983A solder dispenser, industrial air compressor, dedicated circuit production computer, and solder rework station.

The total value of already acquired machinery is estimated at 8000EUR € (120XMR.) These resources will be used but require no budget.

Nonexistent Resources

Any tools needed (see 'Production machinery') should be purchased in the first month (see 'Project Plan'), in order to avoid postponement of milestones.

Time Estimate

Ten to twenty hours per week six months long, scheduled at the author's discretion. This variability is to accommodate lack of sync in PCB printing, parts ordering, potential firmware integration, and test revisions, logistics which may take weeks to order and ship.

Time will be spent in a:

  • In house circuit lab
  • Local hacker space
  • Remote maker space

Workflow

Work is transparently carried out according to typical distributed Opensource practices. The degree of in house production is maximized to shrink the attack surface introduced by contract manufacturing as well as increase the turn around time of generational testing.

Integration

External and prior logic is researched for possible integration. This may include reverse engineering of contending designs by Opensource documentation or closed source (to the legal extent) microscopic inspection.

Design

A schematic diagram is designed using KiCad or equivalent Opensource software. A layout is derived from the schematic and integration work.

Printing

Two layer FR4 (flame retardant) substrate is printed according to the prior layout. Four layer substrate may be used, but a external contract manufacturer like Aisler or OSH Park is required for that.

Pasting

An Sn63Pb37 alloy is applied to the substrate with an injection based solder printer.

Assembly

The board is populated (stuffed) with components in a standard pick and place procedure. Manual placing is avoided due to error and delay concerns.

Reflow

The board is baked according to a timed temperature curve yielding a ready to test PCB. An experimental two sided approach may allow for extra density.

Rework

Bridged solder pads, air wires, and other mistakes are corrected.

Testing

Electrical and optical tests are manually done to identify manufacturing problems. This may include stereoscopic magnification or controlled destruction.

Programming

MCU and external flash programming applies primitive bootloader and firmware interface images.

Generation

The PCB is ready for use, and a new generation of correction and improvement follows. Start from the beginning (integration step) to optimise the existing design and fulfill more requirements.

Samples

Production samples are mailed to investors, testers, and promoters identified during Monero meetings.

Project Plan

Date Milestone FFS Payment
October Initialisation work (platform, communication, and procurement) 314XMR
Early November Tool configs, project documentation, Opendime research 168XMR
Late November Set of PCBs employing secure elements from ST and Atmel
Early December Trezor and Ledger hardware (clone) production 120XMR
Mid December Trezor and Ledger firmware (fork) programming
Late December Mock or prototype demonstration at 34C3 [2]
Early January Midterm report on Trezor and Ledger findings 120XMR
Mid January Custom design and recent feature tailoring
Late January Midterm remix in favor of Monero features
Early February New prototype demonstration at FOSDEM [3] 154XMR
Late February Correlation power analysis, glitch attack trials
Early March PCB generations (schematic and layout improvements) 120XMR
Late March Size and complexity (less or more layers) optimizations
End of term⁸ Demonstration video of a release grade⁹ manufactured board

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
[3] https://www.fosdem.org/2018/

⁸ Six month conclusion
⁹ Post prototype

Funds are asymmetrically distributed, due to terms of machinery procurement and facilities use. Some correction (not receiving work time reimbursement the first month) attempts to balance this asymmetry.

Progress Reports

Progress is reported in bimonthly Monero developer meetings on the IRC developer channel.

Continuation Plan (Pending New RFC and Revote)

Date Milestone
April First viable wallet with hello world firmware
May Invitation documents produced with instructions
June Virtual community event for alpha testers, demo
August Official release at Black Hat and DefCon

Ownership

The Monero Project owns this (Opensource) proposal, the blueprint-like result of a month's careful deliberation and research. The author contributed it by uploading content to the forum. Readers are free to print and hand it to investors, colleagues, university professors, or whoever else, in order to start a hardware project of their own.

Copyright

Source files (text and binary) of all work state Copyright (c) 2017-2018, The Monero Project.

License

CERN Open Hardware License 1.2

Being a hardware project, no software license is used. Instead, a open hardware license is applied whose terms resemble the other Monero projects' (BSD|MIT) licenses. Patents are more relevant to hardware projects so to counter risk of conflict the CERN OHL is used.

Note: While deliberating between TAPR and CERN, online chats led to a preference for CERN due to its:

  • Poison pill
  • Conciseness
  • Bodaciousness
  • Lack of lame conditions
  • Lack of Eric Raymond complaints
  • Adoption by other like minded projects

Legal Summary

The legal terms mentioned in this text are chosen with the intent of maintaining free and open access to the work. Some call this intellectual property (IP) and others consider deliverables (see section 'Deliverables'.)

These intentions are no different than other Monero projects, and the community is unified in encouraging freedom. Like any other similarly licensed Opensource project, groups and individuals may enjoy the free and open terms as specified in the license.

Intentions

The project intends to serve as a launchpad for small (one man-hour) to large (one man-year) efforts at distributing Monero featured wallet hardware. Several requirements (see section 'Non/Functional Requirements') support the derivation, customization, marketing, and teaching of how to begin commercialization. All are welcome to participate in this way, and the hope is that we end up with both collaborating and competing groups.

Brainstorm

This project proposal was first discussed by Michael, endogenic, and anonimal at the Monero themed party during DefCon 2017.

Inclusion

Teamwork and collaboration from any competent person is encouraged. Outreach to other hardware makers mutually benefits the respective communities.

Promotion

The hackerspace mailing lists and IRC channels for C-Base, MuCCC, and the Noisebridge will serve to promote, while dedicated lists and channels will serve to support. Outreach is conducted with the EFF, NLNet, and other like minded groups.

Midterm deliverables will be taken to CCC congress at Leipzig in December, possibly Shmoocon in January, and prototype or release grade devices will be distributed at DefCon 2018 (see project plan.) It may be Michael that makes these visits or another person familiar with the project.

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Reply to: michael zonefinder
zonefinder posted 6 years ago Replies: 2 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Yes, your last paragraph is more along the lines of my question: what do you consider are the advantages of avoiding a contract manufacturer? I didn't mean to imply that you'd use machines that could produce thousands.

I only ask because I work as a designer and my company has similar equipment to what you list for building prototypes, but we rarely use it even for only 5-10 boards, mostly because of the set up time involved. You'll have to get the PCBs made anyhow, so why not have them assembled? For example, you can get 5 4-layer boards fully assembled from pcbway.com for about $500-$700. Even if you budget $1000 per revision and you need 5 revs that's still only roughly 50 XMR (at current rates). Any rework you have to do by hand can be done either way the boards are initially assembled.

It seems like you're going to set up a whole prototyping lab for a single board design, which just doesn't seem like the best use of resources. The prototyping houses can do QFN, BGA and 0201 components without issue. You also have the advantage of being able to immediately go to hundreds or thousands of units simply with a few clicks without concern about differences between your manufacturing and theirs.

I'm not trying to be overly critical, and I only comment because I'd be interested in donating.

Reply to: zonefinder michael zonefinder
michael edited 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Fine Pitch

We'll start with 0805, TSSOP, SOIC, and DFN/QFN .5mm where needed. This will be the developer large model and we'll possibly maintain it to the end (delivering two designs.) As tests progress we'll miniaturize to BGA and 0201 size if possible. It's likely some compromises will be made, since generations of BGA and 0201 based testing is quite ambitious. Placing with vision will be okay but I'm worried about pasting such fine pitch, know what I mean?

>It seems like you're going to set up a whole prototyping lab for a single board design
>
I'm pretty sure there will be several dozen different board designs which we need to somehow print and quickly populate. The single board design is the product of testing those dozen circuits.

Advantages of Avoidance

Avoiding a contract manufacturer during fast paced (likely more than five generations) of PCB design changes and retesting cuts time down to 3-4 months, which is vital.

Disadvantages of Contract Manufacturing

I've learned the hard way that sending orders to Shenzhen leads to a 10-20% failure rate even when no fine pitch is specified. Chinese communication, and shipping delay has nearly sunk projects for me in the past.

Changes to design while they're configuring the order are not possible. Small changes between boards of a dozen batch are not possible.

Shenzhen express delivery takes up to a month in the E.C., with three weeks customs wait. Paying the prices you mentioned (500-700 USD) seems accurate, and must be repeated for each (of ten?) revs. The math doesn't add up, as we only have six months. The cost however does add up, and we end up paying half or more the price of a machine.

Considered Alternatives

To survive customs and avoid delay, local PCBA service is possible. Multi-CB is a good shop but they want about twice the price of Shenzhen. Another is EEPD, which I've checked with and they refuse any order under 1000 boards.

Planned Method

Our workflow plans a hybrid between contract manufacturing (which we'll still use for printing the alpha devices to send out) and in house rapid prototyping between the few alpha releases.

Advantages of Contract Manufacturing

Yes they exist! And hopes are that once a nonchanging design appears (after prototyping) that we'll send an order to a PCBA contract manufacturer for many many boards. This is part of the 'Continuation Plan' and depends on design and demand.

Services like Macrofab (or Waveshare?) will probably be part of our one page marketing document so that any Monero community member can send off an order for a dozen assembled boards without spending hundreds in service or learning chinese.

Zonefinder, what do you know about new (Macrofab-like) PCBA services? Are they a good alternative to the Shenzhen PCBA fabs?

Reply to: zonefinder michael zonefinder
michael edited 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

>we rarely use it even for only 5-10 boards
>
Would you please give guidance on how practical it is to set up a PnP with vision and PCBs with fiducials (obviously) for a low number of boards if the component placement changes only slightly.

I'm asking since I've spent days hand placing and reworking, especially when DFN/QFN is in use.

Wouldn't it be possible in the worst case to place all parts that don't change between revisions while hand placing the few that do?

michael posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Question: Are we stenciling or using a solder jet printer?
Answer: Solder jet printers are six figure machines not within budget. We're not using stencils either however, since the (on hand) Voltera machine that can print traces is able to apply solder paste as well.

jonathancross edited 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

A private key in a real (with lock features) secure element...
...this would be the first design to ever implement such a high degree of wallet security...

I am curious how this would compare to the Digital Bitbox which uses the ATAES132A a "high-security chip that prevents physical extraction (50 year lifespan)"?

The Ledger Nano S also claims to use a secure element - ST31H320.

michael posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ] 
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michael posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

I just stamped my authorship signature, and did so in comments rather than modifying the text (as folks in IRC suggested.)

antw081 posted 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Donated.

Hey @michael, for your next project after this, could we get something like a OpenDime:

https://opendime.com/

Reply to: jonathancross
michael edited 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Both hardware (Bitbox and Ledger) implementations seem solid enough, but at least Ledger hides from users what they consider the most important crypto code, also what forms the basis of their claims. I see you used the word claim as well. After three weeks and five emails, I finally got a one line answer 'no you may not yet verify the source code that supports our sekp256k1 secrets claim.'

You missed that the new 300 USD Bluetooth model 'Ledger Blue' also integrates a ST SE (ST31G480 instead of ST31H320) and is a bit less opaque to users.

While it seems their work is prime time and high quality, their goals are different than those of the Monero project.

I'm impressed by Digital Bitbox's use of the Atmel suite of secure elements (ATSHA240A, ATECC508A, and ATAES132A) while sad that they suffer from lack of ECDSA in hardware. In fact, both Bitbox and Ledger maintain their own forked software implementations of sekp256k1. They focus resources like BIP32 and BIP44 and secp256k1 software maintainance in order to cater to a non Monero user base. This means, just like Ledger, that if a noncore component must be chopped in the future, it will more likely be Monero's ED25519 (assuming they ever implement it -in software- at all.)

Also impressive is that Bitboxes are designed at or near the ETH Zurich, an important high tech hotbed with history. On the other hand, I wonder why they don't turn to ATECC ICs for the ECDH crypto they claim to secure mobile phone connections with. They are already using Atmel ICs after all.

Thanks a lot for bringing up the Digital Bitbox, which we hadn't fully inspected yet. I've reached out to them, and tried to arrange for a meeting at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH.)

I'm pretty sure this doesn't fully answer your question 'I am curious how this would compare...' but possibly steered in the correct direction? It's a bit of a can of worms topic, so hopefully you'll write back, giving an opinion. Feel free to restate or reword the question.

Reply to: antw081
michael posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Oh, you mean like RFC-HWAPPLIC-6?

Jokes aside, thanks to your enthusiasm I added that RFC to the list of hardware projects that might follow a successful hardware wallet campaign. Just search for 'HW' or 'RFC' in the forums to review payment processors, ATM devices, and other non software projects.

OpenDime is already on the radar (see 'Other Requirements' and 'Project Plan') in this proposal as well, but as you know the use case diverges too much to make a combined wallet and bond device. We're looking at OpenDime in this wallet design for use of its one way physical tamper resistant feature, for example.

Lastly, thanks Ms. or Mr. antw081 for the investment, excellent choice!

drfloydch posted 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

I don't know if it's allowed, but can be cool to put a link about your initiative on the official getmonero.org download page (hardware wallets section) ?

afighttilldeath posted 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Donated

Reply to: drfloydch
michael posted 6 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

You mean like an announcement that hardware development is on the way, similar to how the download page leads mobile users to ask for advice in another channel?

Your idea seems quite helpful. I'll create a bug report on the website repository once I'm back on a full keyboard.

Reply to: afighttilldeath
michael posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Thanks a lot for voting for the project with your wallet! Very generous of you.

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drfloydch posted 6 years ago Weight: 0 | Link [ - ]

Yes, exactly like for the mobile section : "not available now but an interesting community project is on the way" ;).