Achievement 2: Task Basic Security on Steem by @ruthgold

in hive-172186 •  2 years ago 

Good day everyone and welcome to my achievement 2,on the basic security of steemit

: Question 1

Have you retrieved all your keys on steemit?

Yes I have retrieved all my steemit keys by downloading it on my PDF. I later copied most of the important keys to other safer places like my email and the cloud.

steemit is aplatform that filled with so much wisdom and security consciousness, "Instead of password based authentication, our accounts have a set of public and private key pairs that are used for authenticating and encrypting data". What a way of safe guarding our keys, steemit to the WORLD.

Question 2

Do you know about each of these keys function and restriction?

The best and first instruction you should follow is that "You should not share your steemit keys or files with anybody", because no one is supposed to be trusted with Your keys, which means your should be something personal to you and only you can have access to it, or until you give it to someone else.

Question 3

What are the types of security keys and their functions in steemit?

Here are the basic keys and their functions in Steemit:

Posting Key: This key is a very important key of your steemit account, used for logging into the steemit platform and performing some basic actions such as commenting on other users posts, posting articles, upvoting others, and downvoting posts, etc.

Active Key:This key is used for wallet transactions like sending steem/Steem Dollars etc.

Owner Key: This is the another very important key because it can use to recover stolen accounts. We can also use it to change our current passwords, and getting newly generated passwords.

Memo Key: A very unique and interesting key to be used for decrypting memo belonging to transactions on the Steemit platform.

Question 4

How can I secure my keys in steemit?

After successfully creating an account, I would get my password downloaded to my file, which I would open with my WPS app.

The first thing I will do is to login my steemit account through my Chrome browser because I will have the opportunity to save the passwords in the browser, because the Chrome browser stores password which can be retrieved going to "setting, password, and then click on the view icon to see the passwords you have saved.

Another important way to secure my password is to save it somewhere in the internet. For example saving it on my Email or Gmail. Or better still writing it down in a dairy that only me can access.

Question 5

Do you know how to successfully transfer your STEEM token to another Steemit user account?

I have researched and learnt about how to transfer tokens from one user to another, and I would be sharing it through Examples.

I first go to my profile, select "wallet", and signin my active key.
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Under the wallet section,I click the drop down menu for STEEM, and then I select "TRANSFER"

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Click on transfer

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I then insert the necessary details of the user to receive the token. For this task I inserted the name of my sister @talktofaith then I clicked on NEXT

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Then I click OK.

Question 6

Do you know how to make power up of your STEEM?

When Powering-up your Steem token, you would be required to follow the same process as transferring a Steem. But instead of clicking on the first option in the drop down menu of STEEM, you would select the third option which is "Power Up".

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After I put the amount of steem I want to power up I click on the POWER UP.

THANKS FOR YOUR TIME IN READING MY ACHIEVEMENT 2

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It's nice to see that you have finally done your achievement 2 post.
I hope by making this post you have learnt the various security measures on steemit keys.
Best regards

Yes I have learnt it all, and the importance of it all, thank you

Hello
@ruthgold

I would like to welcome you on this beautiful platform wholeheartedly.

I am the moderator of the Incredible India community

I love to welcome you to our community. As I can see you have shared some awesome photographs and our community is based on art and culture.

So it would be our pleasure to have you in our community with many more great photographs.

Our discord:- Meraindia discord link

Regards,
@piya3 (moderator)
Incredible India community

Hello dear @ruthgold you've been verified, note the owner key is important but the most important one is the master key, just keep it safely because if someone lay hands on it he/ she can take over your account, what do I mean, the key has the power to change both itself and other keys too. You may continue to the next achievement task #3 at your convenience.

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Thank you so much ma

Congratulations to your achievement 2. You have done well for spelling out steps in carrying out these processes.

For the posting key, you have to keep it safe. I wish you good luck in the journey.

Nice achievement 2 post

For example saving it on my Email or Gmail. Or better still writing it down in a dairy that only me can access

Is very impressive that you don't depend on keeping your keys on your phone because one day your might spoil beyond repair or it might be stolen.

Just like me, my former phone got stolen on the 8th of February this year, I won't forget the date because that day was painful. Luckily for me my steemit keys were also in my mum's phone and other places if not my life would have been miserable 😱

I finally bought a new phone with few steem I have saved and I was no longer in a club but now am back by the grace of God. Keep on posting quality contents here and you will enjoy steemit to the fullest dear.

Thank God you also know how to power because it's one of the most important thing to do in steemit in other to improve the influence of your steem power.