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How secure is Tori? What does “self custodial” mean?
How secure is Tori? What does “self custodial” mean?
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Written by Alexander Wu
Updated over a week ago

Tori doesn’t touch or hold your money. So even if Tori shuts down, your funds are safe.

Your funds are held in a self custodial wallet you control secured by your biometrics. This means no one, not even Tori, holds or has access to your funds.

“Self-custodial” means it is cryptographically impossible for anyone else in the world to move your funds without your explicit permission. This is because only you have access to your Tori private key - which is required to perform any action.

We’ve taken comprehensive security measures to ensure the security and safety of your wallet. Your private keys are encrypted and stored in a highly-secure Turnkey Secure Enclave (Learn more here). Your private key is encrypted in flight which means that noone has access to it except for you at any point in time - not even Tori nor Turnkey.

The only way to access your private key in the Turneky Secure Enclave is through your Apple or Google passkey which is secured by both your device’s biometric verification and your Apple ICloud or Google Cloud account. Passkeys is an authentication method that is a safer alternative to passwords as it is verified by both your biometrics and Apple or Google’s Cloud additional security measures.

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