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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by marginalia_nu on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:47PM (#37056511)
Given it's seeded with system time, depending on the resolution, that may in practice be as low as tens of thousands of possible values (as in time(2) )
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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by ryanatdistrust on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:02PM (#37056603)
2^32 is still incredibly small for crypto and is inexcusable.
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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by nullc on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:11PM (#37056697)
A fact which was unambiguously well known to the authors prior to the report: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022...
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