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CD44: using secure random number generators to generate bitcoin keys with waxwing and @raw_avocado

Citadel Dispatch

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A Very Important Detail About Nonse Generators

i was going to say that that actually, m z brought up something, but i think youare going to explain mathen we shuld address the question. Let's just quickly, i just want to expand one little detail on, like alex gave you the bomb shell, rigt. The bomb shell is that the nonces have this horrible fragility to them, which is that even if you have slight biases, one bit, two bits, three bits, maybe in a nonce, that can lead to this catastrophic failure where you actually get the private key just from the nonses. Now, emsy's making a very important point, which is, everything we're describing about

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