Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation

Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by tedunangst on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:42PM (#37056462)

Weird. I've been assured, repeatedly, that time seeded PRNGs are never used for crypto and it's not an issue worth addressing.

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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by sowbug on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:30PM (#37056850)

There is no single codebase for "crypto," so that would be an extraordinary assurance for someone to make. Even Bitcoin has many different compatible implementations of varying quality.

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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by ryanatdistrust on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:57PM (#37056573)

As long as people can write code, bugs will exist.

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