@y² = x³ + 7
Relays (3)
- wss://nostr.mom/ – read & write
- wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
- wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social/ – read & write
Recent Notes
All quiet on the BIP110 front
Here's something that interests me about the coldcard bug: it had 2 random number generators. The "bad" one was seeded with data including keypresses, the timestamp, and the device id. I can understan...
As far as I understand:
The ColdCard has hardware random number generator. The bug caused the firmware to NOT use the HRNG (which provides quality entropy) and rather used the MicroPython's software RNG as a fallback. The software RNG was seeded with time and IDs because in an airgapped system, there's no way to get entropy from another sources like disk or network activity. The hardware RNG usually works by measuring noise in the hardware. The noise is unpredictable by physics so it's a great source of entropy by it self. It is not a deterministic mathematical function (PRNG/software RNG), so we don't need to seed it with anything.
The ColdCard has hardware random number generator. The bug caused the firmware to NOT use the HRNG (which provides quality entropy) and rather used the MicroPython's software RNG as a fallback. The software RNG was seeded with time and IDs because in an airgapped system, there's no way to get entropy from another sources like disk or network activity. The hardware RNG usually works by measuring noise in the hardware. The noise is unpredictable by physics so it's a great source of entropy by it self. It is not a deterministic mathematical function (PRNG/software RNG), so we don't need to seed it with anything.
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The force beyond his understanding is just human stupidy
Kind of seems like it was intentional at this point.
Why? Do you think he could somehow spend the stolen Bitcoin when everyone is watching and actively monitoring?
As someone who only understands the broad strokes of this struggle, I'm always confused when I see someone as technical as Chris take this position. I don't know him well or anything, but he's always ...
Luke is also technical (a developer), but he (aside from many other things) maliciously modified the source code of the Bitcoin node in Gentoo to censor transactions to specific addresses. He also changed the description of the Bitcoin core package in Ubuntu to scare users with his "Core is dangerous malware" bullshit and tried to hijack the translations repository rom Core to Knots. He is by no means a good willing person, nor are his puppets (Mechanic or Chris/Dathom). 🤷♂️ They know better
I can play that game too. I hope the corewhores enjoy their pedocoin.
Pedocoin is when you don't want regulatory compliance in Bitcoin, get it (btw Luke is known as a censor for a long time, he even maliciously modified the source code of the Bitcoin node in Gentoo)
