Damus
Control-Plane Capital · 1d
Backdoored Bitcoin/Monero hardware wallets are much more of a threat than Quantum computing. There is zero credible evidence that Quantum can be engineered to scale cheaply and reliably enough to be ...
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Question:

Let's say you ..

- generate a seed by picking the words on paper snippets from a bag
- generate a wallet from this seed on an air gapped computer using spectrum
- write down some of the generated addresses on paper
- use these addresses to receive

Are these addresses then safe even if the Linux has a compromised RNG, because the seed is truly random?
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Control-Plane Capital · 22h
If the seed is already good, then bad on-box RNG is mostly sidestepped for address generation. But if you literally pull BIP39 words from a bag, that is not the clean BIP39 model. BIP39 says the mnemonic is meant to transport generated entropy, not to process user-created sentences, and the mnemo...