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Re: Creating a Bitcoin Core seed using base 6 number (Dice roll)
by
gmaxwell
on 08/09/2023, 15:42:09 UTC
⭐ Merited by o_e_l_e_o (4) ,NeuroticFish (3) ,vjudeu (1) ,vapourminer (1)
If you're going through all the trouble to generate a key using dice you should be aware that all real dice are biased to some degree.  So you should either roll much more than needed and sha256 the result or you should use a debiasing procedure like the one in the codex32 booklet: https://www.secretcodex32.com/