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Re: How can you verify the randomness that's coming from a hardware?
by
BlackHatCoiner
on 08/05/2022, 07:48:02 UTC
You only need to roll a dice 99 times to get a 256-bit number. Which gives you a bitcoin private key.
Given that 4 out of the 6 results add 2 bits and 2 out of the 6 results add 1 bit, then each dice roll gives on average ~1.66 bits. That's 256/1.66 = ~154 times. But, there's no reason to do this for a bitcoin private key and not for a seed, which will then generate infinite keys.

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