Post
Topic
Board Speculation
Re: Bitcoin vulnerability
by
Hyena
on 30/01/2014, 14:36:24 UTC
This is all FUD. The parameters in the code EK wants you to use are like saying "pick an integer between 2 and 4 and I'll guess it in one guess"  Vs saying "pick an integer between one and a trillion and I'll guess it in 1 guess."

Just like with the android PRNG bug, if you limit the search space you can easily search it. It is self evident. There is a good thread in the tech and dev section which details why it isn't an issue unless you use bad (or limited) code to generate keys.


That's what I suspected. These code newbies don't know shit about PRNGs. Nevertheless, I've lately started to use http://random.org to influence the seed for my random number generators in security critical infrastructure.