Fwiw i thought more about it last night, chatted with Claude about it, and saw a serendipitous tweet from Matthew Green making similar points in the negative:
I don't think what I'm alluding to here ...
Ya, I was thinking a lot about it last night as well. I agree that as an end user it is impossible to validate randomness.
The only thing you can do as an end user is minimize the risk of it. Either by performing your own entropy (dice rolls, coin flips, etc) to elimate the risk entirely. Or by involving multiple sources of entropy from multiple vendors to minimize the risk of failure from a single one. You can do that via multi-sig or with something like SeedXOR to combine multiple diverse seeds into a single seed phrase.
The only thing you can do as an end user is minimize the risk of it. Either by performing your own entropy (dice rolls, coin flips, etc) to elimate the risk entirely. Or by involving multiple sources of entropy from multiple vendors to minimize the risk of failure from a single one. You can do that via multi-sig or with something like SeedXOR to combine multiple diverse seeds into a single seed phrase.
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