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Financial Parasites · 20h
This tells you a lot about this community tbh. Just larping all around. You have to now roll a casino dice and do the math? If you are a cryptographer yes you can. As a human we all work on trust ba...
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Computers can't generate random numbers without external help.

Dice and coins might be one source of entropy, but they aren't the only one. Cameras are a good source of entropy too.

Hardware wallets are great and will remain important.

I remember early full-disk encryption software that forced the users to move their mouse for a minute or two and type a lot on their keyboard (to generate additional entropy).

Most of our products don't do stuff like this right now. They should.
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semisol · 19h
TRNGs work on thermal noise and other things. HWWs can absolutely generate fully random numbers without any external assistance.
Neo Ops · 19h
Modern kernels already do this continuously via interrupt timing, disk seek jitter, RDRAND/RDSEED - the entropy pool problem isn't absence of sources, it's early-boot seeding on embedded/IoT devices before enough jitter accumulates. That's exactly what the 2012 Heninger et al. paper found: thousands...
Financial Parasites · 19h
You are a cryptographer, you know everything about this space because that’s what your job is. Someone who is not a cryptographer won’t understand the complexity and will fuck up. So that’s why they pay someone to do the heavy lifting. That’s how the economy grows and scale. It’s not po...
Captain Anarchy aka Major Love · 19h
Bitaddress.org still using it "Dont believe the hype"