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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Generating a seed phrase with biased dice
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o_e_l_e_o
on 28/10/2023, 09:23:02 UTC
That's interesting. I didn't know that. I thought that if you select the dice rolls seed generation method, that the entropy comes only from that source. But according to the documentation you linked to, 256 bits of entropy is already generated from Coldcard's hardware and the dice rolls are an addition on too of that.
Coldcard provides all three options - PRNG only, PRNG + dice, or dice only.

https://coldcard.com/docs/middle-ground/#generating-seed-words
https://coldcard.com/docs/paranoid/#generating-seed-words-with-256-bits-of-entropy-by-dice-rolls

In the thread I linked, the OP chose dice only and then proceeded with a single dice roll of 5. You can verify this yourself by going to Ian Coleman, showing entropy, putting in "5", choosing dice rolls, choosing 24 words, choosing BIP 84, and generating the same addresses as OP:

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qln3mjur5h67xenn04vepunx27fhpvfgvqgwelx
https://mempool.space/address/bc1qmq80v8cxlsuwkxc8yt7hzjf05jyga3q5uea9uk