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Board Development & Technical Discussion
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Re: Bitcoin address SHA-2(string+n)
by
ranochigo
on 05/07/2021, 14:56:21 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (2) ,NotATether (1) ,pooya87 (1)
No you misunderstood what I was saying, do not use /dev/urandom for cryptographic random number generation because when it runs out of hardware entropy it will use a PNRG to give you the rest of the bits. I recommend using /dev/random instead which will stall when hardware entropy runs out until more is made available.

FWIW: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/.

There seems to be quite a bit of a misconception about /dev/urandom and /dev/random. Bitcoin Core and many other wallets all uses /dev/urandom.