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Re: True Random for automatic offline address generator
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Quickseller
on 18/10/2021, 02:13:23 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (3)
The title of this thread touches on some important topics of cryptography.

1) What do you mean by true randomness? Don't we already have true random generators? Do you mean that our supposedly random numbers are chosen predictably?
2) Why is your way more random than ours?
There is no such thing as being “more random”. An outcome is either random or it isn’t.

It is not possible to observe if an outcome is actually random or not based on observation.

In the past (in bitcoins early days) there were wallet software that (intentionally) created private keys with flawed RNG, using a small scope of private keys. Someone looking at many private keys generated this way would not have detected the flawed RNG without looking at the underlying code.

In the case of the OPs proposal, it is possible to determine the radio raves being used to influence the generated private key. This means the OPs method is flawed.

If additional random input is used in addition to the FM input, the entropy will be reduced from what it would otherwise be.