Whitelist MyEtherWallet for file:// origin

[SCBuergel]

(I'm not sure if this is an issue for MyEtherWallet or this bridge)

When loading MyEtherWallet not via their website but instead from their static build locally (local HTML file) then I get the error Trying to connect from a non-whitelilsted origin. If possible, it would be very useful to interface a static, local and offline copy of MyEtherWallet to reduce attack vectors further.

[NickeZ]

It is supposed to work if you use 127.0.0.1 or localhost. Are you using some other domain to refer to your localhost?

[SCBuergel]

I just opened the index.html which is probably stupid and can't work due to permissions (?). The reason I was trying is that it's hard to host the web app by running a local web server on TailsOS. It's not only resilience and security by air-gapping but I want to do also do that because MyEtherWallet does not seem to load in the TOR browser.

[NickeZ]

I'll try that and see if there is a way to whitelist this way of running MEW.

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 20:02 Sebastian C. Bürgel ***@***.***> wrote: I just opened the index.html which is probably stupid and can't work due to permissions (?). The reason I was trying is that it's hard to host the web app by running a local web server on TailsOS <https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/21097/how-to-run-a-local-webserver-on-tails>. It's not only resilience and security by air-gapping but I want to do also do that because MyEtherWallet does not seem to load in the TOR browser <MyEtherWallet/MyEtherWallet#2242>. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADYJUICYZHF2OCQJ7YYQKDRMNHTHANCNFSM4MG6A3OQ> .

[NickeZ]

btw, if you have python you can run python3 -m http.server in the directory of the index.html file and get a quick http server up and running. This might be a valid workaround until I get time to look at the real issue.

[x1ddos]

If possible, it would be very useful to interface a static, local and offline copy of MyEtherWallet to reduce attack vectors further.

127.0.0.1 or ::1 is local and can be as much offline as you want it to be. It's a loopback and requires no internet connection.

From https://github.com/MyEtherWallet/MyEtherWallet#developers, the last step:

7. App should be running in https://localhost:8080

Alternatively, use a static file server like what @NickeZ suggested in #7 (comment)

[x1ddos]

You'll want to bind to loopback only though. I would recommend something like:

python3 -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1

[x1ddos]

More static file servers: https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

[x1ddos]

To summarize: opening an HTML file like MEW's index.html directly with a browser is no more secure than 127.0.0.1 while offline.

Though, I made a feature request out of this. See details in #9.