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Re: How can you verify the randomness that's coming from a hardware?
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larry_vw_1955
on 01/05/2022, 00:59:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by dkbit98 (2)

If you were to use a 6 sided dice, you could roll the dice 8-byte/6-dice * 128 = 171 times and convert a base-6 number to a 128-byte base-8 number.

You only need to roll a dice 99 times to get a 256-bit number. Which gives you a bitcoin private key.

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If you wanted to be even more random - evenly distributed and independent - with dice, you could get a 20-sided dice but then collect the data in base-2 by saying every even number was 1 and odd number was zero,


The thing is, a 20 sided dice has more biases than a 6 sided dice. The more sides the more bias. So that might not be a good idea.

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Physics is such a beast that there could be a discovery on how to make radioactive decay not-random.
you can't cause or  influence when an atom undergoes radioactive decay. plus you don't know exactly when it will decay. look it up.