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Re: Stake.com | The Most Popular Bitcoin Casino | V2 & New games out now! 👽
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yoloer808
on 30/08/2019, 05:33:03 UTC
Been looking at various provably fair implementations on sites here and came across something weird. Basically all sites have 256 char server seeds, but stake uses a much shorter one. Can anyone more knowledgeable comment on why the server seed on stake is shorter than any other site?  Isnt this a security risk?

Well, theoretically this should not necessarily be an issue, but its a somewhat weird decision not to err on the side of caution. I would agree that 128 byte seeds (=256 hexdec chars) should be the minimum.

Don't shorter seeds necessarily imply worse security? I know primedice already got hacked for millions. For now I am keeping my gambling money on stake (<1btc), but things like this concern me.

So I've looked into this and stake indeed does have the shortest seeds out there. YoloDice has 256 hexdec characters, which is 128 bytes of entropy, bitdice and betking both have 128 chars, with 64 bytes of entropy. Stake has 64 chars with only 32 bytes of entropy. Playing a bit lose?