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# Choosing your guardians

With Cypherock X1, you are empowered to safely share your X1 Cards with guardians without the fear of them being able to hack your funds. But at the same time, it is advisable to give custody to people who you trust.

Although selecting a guardian is a highly personal decision and varies from person to person, but it is recommended to keep the following in mind at the time of your decision-making.

* Trust-worthiness
* Accessibility
* Degree of Connection

Also, it is recommended, if you choose to give custody of your X1 Cards to human guardians, you do so only after setting up a PIN on the wallet. Cypherock has a three-layered security framework. These are Decentralized Keys, Distributed locations, and PINs. PIN/ passwords on your wallets act as the ultimate security layer which means, in case an attacker is able to find any two X1 cards, they still won’t be able to hack your Crypto assets until they know about your PIN. Cypherock architecture prevents brute-force attacks on Cypherock X1 by implementing an incremental wait time for wrong pin attempts. Brute-force attempts lock the wallets for up to 100 years.


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