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Re: Are dices for generating seed words fair?
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o_e_l_e_o
on 22/10/2022, 07:23:04 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (1)
i wouldn't be bouncing them off any surface. they are taken one by one out of the bag and placed carefully onto a surface not bounced.
They are bouncing off each other in the bag. If a dice is weighted to roll a 6 more frequently than it should otherwise, it doesn't matter if you are bouncing it off the floor, a table, the inside of a cup, other dice in a bag, dropping it down some stairs, or launching it in a trebuchet - it will still be more likely to roll a 6.

they claim to be open source on the website. but they dont seem to go out of their way to publish the github link for people to check it out but here it is: https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet
Neither their Android nor their Apple apps are reproducible from their published code:
https://walletscrutiny.com/android/com.cakewallet.cake_wallet/
https://walletscrutiny.com/iphone/com.fotolockr.cakewallet/

Still, that error is horrendous. They are falling back on a function which the documentation specifically says is not suitable for cryptographic purposes, which apparently also defaults to a 64 bit number: https://devoncarew.github.io/papyrus.dart/dart.math.html#Random

Completely amateur mistake. Yet another reason that people should stop using all these random wallets which keep popping up and just stick to the tried and tested ones.