Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation
by quonn on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:45PM
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But the phrases are random, so unlike poems or prayers they are difficult to memorize.
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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation
by sparkie on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:02PM
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Create your own haiku, never publish it. What are the odds of someone creating exactly the same haiku?
Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation
by nullc on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:27PM
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Probably much higher than you suspect. Making password haikus is an obvious idea which has been suggested many times before.
I'm sure that even with a great statistical model of password haikus (say an LLM) yours would still be one in a billion which still seems unlikely, but a cracking cluster can try billions per second.
In these cases it's very easy to have security that depends on the odds that a powerful attacker just hasn't gotten around to seriously trying the broad class of predictable generation schemes you've used.