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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Using mouse input for extra entropy
by
bitmover
on 20/08/2019, 16:20:18 UTC
I always assumed this isn't the only source of entropy they use, but it's added to some other random generator in the computer. I've just tested it on https://www.bitaddress.org: without using my mouse (Tab many times to be able to type in the entry field), I filled it by holding the A-button. After that, I did the same again. As expected, this produced 2 different private keys.
I agree that the website uses also another source of entropy. Otherwise, some private keys generated would eventually collide.

And different users would eventually share the same keys , as this website is very popular and new keys are generated every day