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Re:Show HN: HelloBitcoin. A “Hello World” of Bitcoin, Writte... by sjustinas on Friday October 03, 2014 @01:49AM (#8404450)
You acknowledge your random number generator not being cryptographically secure. (https://github.com/prettymuchbryce/hellobitcoin/blob/20af54c...) Reseeding the generator every time is wrong as well.

Why not just use crypto/rand instead, which is suitable for this kind of job?

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Re:Show HN: HelloBitcoin. A “Hello World” of Bitcoin, Writte... by tokenizerrr on Friday October 03, 2014 @11:15AM (#8405873)
It even has a Read([]byte) method for automatically filling a []byte with cryptographically secure psuedorandom numbers, so the loop would not be necessary!
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