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Re: If you used "bx seed" you probably already lost your bitcoins, but if...
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gmaxwell
on 13/08/2023, 15:52:40 UTC
hmmm, but wasn't the low-entropy seeding limited to the bx-seed codebase, or has a similar problem been found in the libbitcoin dev toolkit?
No. libbitcoin is split into 11 different repositories, the flawed rng was in libbitcoin-system, used all over the place the supposed thread safety bug that motivated the change was observed in P2P networking.  But I believe bx-seed is the one and only generate-your-private-key thing in the whole caboodle.

The division of the software into many repositories probably contributes to the lack of review/oversight and wider participation in development there.