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I deep dived Random Number Generators with Chatty today.

My conclusion, if you do a dice roll right, it’s perfect. The problem is, you’re not going to do it right.

Which is why we have:

Pseudorandom Number Generators (PRNG),
Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generators (CSPRNG),
True Random Number Generators (TRNG) and
Hardware Random Number Generators (HRNG)

which are all imperfect, but their imperfections are better than your imperfect dice roll, unless it isn’t.
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Judge Hardcase · 5w
I understand what you're saying. But in light of the Cold Card fiasco, if tomorrow's state-of-the-art cold storage signing device offered the following options for seed generation, which makes more sense (I'm going to use coin flips instead of dice for my example because it's easier to describe (an...
Azz · 5w
How many bits do you lose with imperfect dice? Might not be 256, but probably still over 240?
umni · 5w
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Self Custody Labs · 5w
https://selfcustodylabs.com/docs/learn/keys/random/
Brunswick · 5w
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-90B
Bud · 5w
https://blossom.primal.net/5e3f83444fa7dcd290b895e8d1f7420b90f5d2a2dde1c178340cb778217d2022.jpg
Rangeman · 5w
Bad dice and 200 rolls and you good to go