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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Generate an address
by
DannyHamilton
on 12/09/2013, 13:32:24 UTC
Is there a better source of entropy available to the average person that could be used to mechanically generate a private key?


For i<52:
  • if 0->31: add the corresponding 5 bits to the private key
  • if 31+: run it again
Remove FOUR random bits

I think I said "available to the average person".

Most of the people that I know have a coin in their pocket or very nearby.  I don't know anybody that owns their own well balanced and maintained roulette wheel.

By the way, how would you choose which 4 bits to remove?