Citadel Dispatch

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

Nov 17, 2021

01:37:22

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How to Reuse a Nonse on Chain?

02:09

How to Hold Your Own Coins in a Hardware Wallet

05:51

How Do We Protect Against This Attack?

03:46

Introduction

6min

Is Secure Random Generation Important With Bigcoin?

5min

Using Multiple Sources of Entropy on Your Computer

4min

What's Good Anthropy?

4min

Anthropy and Cryptography

3min

Lennox - Random Number Generator

3min

You Can't Trust Anything, Right?

2min

Casino Dice, You Don't Need Them.

2min

How to Measure a Dice Into a Secure Key

2min

10.

The Most Efficient Way to Use the Rolls

2min

11.

Is There a Mathematical Method to Mixing Dice?

6min

12.

How Do You Derive the Checks?

2min

13.

Taking Out of a Hat and Theory Is Correct, Right?

4min

14.

Do These Things Happen?

4min

15.

Is There a Global Passive Adviser?

4min

16.

A Hardware Wallet Is a Nice Middle Ground

3min

17.

The Meta Level Recommendation

5min

18.

Is Multisi a Good Idea?

2min

19.

So You Can't Easily Remember 12 Words?

5min

20.

Is It a Hardware Wallet?

4min

21.

How to Hold Your Own Coins in a Hardware Wallet

6min

22.

How to Reuse a Nonse on Chain?

2min

23.

A Very Important Detail About Nonse Generators

4min

24.

How Do You Know if Your Random Number Generator Is Doint?

2min

25.

How Do We Protect Against This Attack?

4min

26.

Is It a Software Bug?

2min

27.

Waxwing, I'm Good to Continue

2min

28.

El Salvador Yet Thangs for Just for Having Us on Mad Ten

3min

29.

Bitcoin Stack Sats

2min

EPISODE: 44

BLOCK: 710040

PRICE: 1647 sats per dollar

TOPICS: random number generators and why they are important when securing bitcoin, history of backdoors, compromises, and poor implementations, multisig tradeoffs, hardware wallet tradeoffs, mitigations to reduce your risk

@waxwing: https://x0f.org/@waxwing

@raw_avocado: https://twitter.com/raw_avocado

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