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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by a-dub on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:20PM (#37056776)
i think the bigger problem is that the seed is easily guessed or found, so all the output can be regenerated.

so it's not even 32 bits of entropy, it's some tiny fraction of that. (system times for a few years interval)

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Re:Milk Sad: Weak Entropy in libbitcoin (bc) seed generation by ryanatdistrust on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:46PM (#37057804)
As discussed elsethread, it used the lower bits of the time value, so while there is is a fraction of the 2^32 space due to precision loss in the OS time calculations, it is not as simple as "between when this software was released and now, in seconds".
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