Re: Entropy, how to calculate it from series of outcome
Dice rolls are never random.
If you knew all necessary information (exact surface conditions, air resistance, rotating speed, ..) you could predict each roll with your dice. That's far away from being 'truly random'.
I know but all this variables can be good enough to generate a private key.If you knew all necessary information (exact surface conditions, air resistance, rotating speed, ..) you could predict each roll with your dice. That's far away from being 'truly random'.
No need to waste your time. The human brain is less than '1/10 random' as an PRNG.
Do you have a source for this ? I would like to read more about it
If you want to create the private key yourself (without any wallet), i'd suggest to boot up a live linux, let it run a few minutes, open and close random programs, and then use /dev/urandom to generate a private key:
Code:
openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp256k1 -rand /dev/urandom
I know that "randomness" is calculated from a lot of variables (memory usage in your message) is this process open ? Can we know what the variables are ? I know that INTEL'S CPU do it in a black box but it must be open process too. Thanks.