Re: How can you verify the randomness that's coming from a hardware?

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 05:42:49 PM

Quote from: n0nce on Today at 05:17:08 PM

That's how people use dice rolls for deducing a seed? They handle it differently based on the number they get? Then the formula from BlackHatCoiner makes sense, but it seems like a questionable way to create a seed. At that point just toss a coin or just use the dice as a 50/50 randomness; 0 bit for even and 1 for odd number on top.

A dice is slightly faster than a coin, because it produces 2 bits most of the time.

I know; I'm honest, I haven't thought through all the probabilities yet, but it feels wrong somehow. Like, those 2-bit throws are 2x as likely as the 1-bit throws, so it should be all fine, but to fully trust this technique, I'd either need to write it out or save myself that time and just spend a bit more time doing it with a coin.. Grin

Of course, I prefer most to have an open-source, probe-able circuit that I can verify. So in the near future I'll probably open up the Passport and fire up the oscilloscope.