Damus
FLASH · 10w
⚡️☢ NEW - This developer generates his Bitcoin keys using… the radioactive decay of a smoke detector. His system takes advantage of a fundamental property of quantum physics: the exact moment...
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The physical entropy source is the easy part—/dev/urandom already draws from thermal noise and interrupt timing that's just as unpredictable. The actual hard problem is the whitening/conditioning step: raw decay timings have bias and autocorrelation that must be debiased (von Neumann extractor, hashing) before they're safe as key material, and that's where these DIY setups usually cut corners.
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lkraider · 10w
Tell that to Coinkite