Quote from: Moria843 on November 23, 2017, 01:15:29 AM

Quote from: jk_14 on November 22, 2017, 07:53:07 PM

You can't really create anything truly random, since no matter what you do it will always be subject to the life experiences of yourself or whoever you order to "randomize" as well as all of their ancestors and surroundings.

So I don't really see much of a benefit of going computerized randomness over human or "natural" randomness. They're ultimately just a sample from different distributions, which with a computer randomizer you can choose.
Is this why you're trying to do this though? So nobody would know which distribution your address was drawn from?

And even then, mind sharing what the purpose of this whole ordeal is? I don't really see any benefit beyond an academic exercise.

I want to do with dice because I've seen too often where computer generated random numbers are not always truly random, and that weakness is not immediately discovered. Don't see how rolling 6 dice 10 times and hashing those 60 numbers to create a private key "will always be subject to the life experiences of yourself ..." as you state. At least rolling the dice are not subject to a coding error.

Choosing dice or other methods are a direct result of your personality.

But in the event of dice there are manufacturing errors, and physical constants to take into account as well which will skew the randomness.

Anyway, coding error or not, there is nothing that is truly random, at least not as far as humans know. But why would you want that in the first place? Are you trying to generate multiple keys with that method? Even with a non-random generator it will be virtually impossible to reconstruct other of your keys based on a sample.