RE: Tomshwom's Advanced Crypto Security Guide (Part 3) - Creating a Secure Wallet
Very interesting, thank you!
I have been working may way through the guide in the meantime and I believe I have come across an issue. When opening the index.html file a dialog box appears saying that Tor is not yet ready and asking to start Tor anyway, I presume this to be normal. However, after opening the index.html file in Tor a very rudimentary form of the MEW page appears, with a white background and nothing functional yet still present. I am not sure if this is supposed to appear like that, but after some reading around I believe others may have experienced the same issues. I wonder if you are familiar with this issue and maybe know of any solutions to it, as I have not been able to find any yet.
I hope I have been clear enough describing the issue.
That warning is normal when Tor cannot connect to other nodes (which it shouldn't be able to if networking is disabled).
The problem with Tor rendering the HTML file is a bug with the version of Tor in the most recent version of Tails. There is a link to an older version of Tails that doesn't have this issue somewhere in the comments on that post. Since you're using it offline, using a slightly older version really won't matter much.
If the problem is caused by Tor, wouldn't it be easier to install a different version of Tor or a different browser on the persistent volume (not sure if this is even possible)? Or is there a security risk involved when solving it this way?